Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L28 on 27 December 2007 at 09:45 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 09:45 on Thursday 27 December 2007. A 65-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43467, longitude -2.86774, in the L28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huyton with Roby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yew Tree, Liverpool, L12 6RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705CC22501
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1994.
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Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 29 October 2008
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 24 November 1990
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Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 30 November 2001
28 m awayRef 2001050207691
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
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 200705CC22501 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.