B5340 crash in Liverpool on 12 March 2009 at 11:40 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2009
- Thursday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40995, longitude -2.96096, in the L7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kensington & Fairfield, Liverpool, L7 8TQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905EE31352
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5340
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 August 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 13 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198205D201510
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 9 October 1996
10 m awayRef 1996050236249
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 28 August 2005
10 m awayRef 200505EE01216
Slight
Car crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 4 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198605D202354
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 26 June 1998
10 m awayRef 1998050137914
Slight
Bus crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 16 February 1984
28 m awayRef 198405D200355
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200905EE31352 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 2009.