Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L32 on 27 December 2007 at 08:30 involving a Citroen Xsara taxi
A vehicle and a Citroen Xsara taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 08:30 on Thursday 27 December 2007. A 40-year-old male passenger in the Citroen Xsara taxi was 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
- 27 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47483, longitude -2.88272, in the L32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705CC22137
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1994.
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 7 February 1994
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Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 November 1999
22 m awayRef 1999050220859
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Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 13 January 2006
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Van crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 21 May 1991
22 m awayRef 199105C300697
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Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 29 April 1997
22 m awayRef 1997050095479
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
- 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 200705CC22137 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 2007.