Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L36 on 4 November 2009 at 11:39 involving a Ford Fiesta taxi
A Ford Fiesta taxi, a Ford Transit van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 11:39 on Wednesday 4 November 2009. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2009
- Wednesday, 11:39
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40426, longitude -2.82064, in the L36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huyton with Roby. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Gabriels, Knowsley, L35 1QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905CC02626
- 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
- Other 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Knowsley, 18 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200205CH00074
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 20 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200505CH00596
Serious
Volvo S60 crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 25 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200705CC17603
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 9 May 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050086872
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 31 May 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050107363
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 22 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200505CH00520
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
- 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 200905CC02626 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.