B5178 crash in Liverpool on 28 July 2002 at 03:15 involving a Bedford
A Bedford crashed on the B5178 in Liverpool at 03:15 on Sunday 28 July 2002. A 16-year-old female passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2002
- Sunday, 03:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bedford
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39945, longitude -2.92433, in the L15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smithdown, Liverpool, L15 3HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002050160308
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5178
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 5 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050177592
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 22 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200905FF33136
Slight
Taxi crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 17 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050140650
Slight
Volvo crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 2 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200505FT00742
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 2 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050062346
Serious
Car crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 29 April 2023
6 m awayRef 2023052301155
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bedford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bedford)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bedford)
- 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 2002050160308 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 2002.