Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L35 on 2 September 2009 at 17:40 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars, a Citroen Berlingo and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 17:40 on Wednesday 2 September 2009. A 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 and a 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were 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
- 2 Sep 2009
- Wednesday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4103, longitude -2.80391, in the L35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prescot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905CC01410
- Council area
- Knowsley
- 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1993.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 31 August 1993
61 m awayRef 199305E301297
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 29 April 1982
85 m awayRef 198205E300470
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 8 December 2010
136 m awayRef 201005CC07109
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 September 1987
139 m awayRef 198705E301172
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 16 July 1983
141 m awayRef 198305E300810
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 6 September 2000
160 m awayRef 2000050165532
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 4: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 200905CC01410 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 2009.