A57 crash in Liverpool on 24 February 2001 at 02:30 involving a Toyota Avensis taxi
A Toyota Avensis taxi crashed on the A57 in Liverpool at 02:30 on Saturday 24 February 2001. A 39-year-old female passenger and a 35-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2001
- Saturday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41167, longitude -2.98237, in the L3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre North, Liverpool, L1 1HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001050035709
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 59
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2007.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2001050035709 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Liverpool road accident statistics for 2001.