Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L3 on 23 December 2007 at 11:25 involving a Mercedes 300 van
A Mercedes 300 van, a Ford Fiesta and three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 11:25 on Sunday 23 December 2007. The 38-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 32-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2007
- Sunday, 11:25
- Vehicles
- 5
- Mercedes 300 and 4 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41982, longitude -2.9967, in the L3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Waterfront North, Liverpool, L5 9AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705EE22105
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 1993.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 13 June 1993
At the same spotRef 199305A200505
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 10 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199005A100553
Serious
Saab 9-3 crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 9 October 2010
At the same spotRef 201005EE05750
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 11 January 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050011634
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 10 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199005A100246
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 13 January 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050011889
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 300
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 5: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200705EE22105 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 2007.