Serious B5342 crash in Liverpool on 17 February 2007 at 19:25 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5342 in Liverpool at 19:25 on Saturday 17 February 2007. The 16-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 2007
- Saturday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C4 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38714, longitude -2.94767, in the L8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arundel, Liverpool, L17 3BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705FF15279
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5342
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5173
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 December 2011.
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 11 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201105FF06981
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B5342 in Liverpool, 15 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200705FF22567
Serious
MG HS crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 11 January 2023
8 m awayRef 2023052300151
Slight
Car crash on the B5342 in Liverpool, 21 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198305F201909
Slight
Car crash on the B5342 in Liverpool, 4 September 1979
10 m awayRef 197905E200726
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 16 October 2018
17 m awayRef 2018051840337
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200705FF15279 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.