Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L7 on 26 May 2009 at 15:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra taxi
A car and a Vauxhall Astra taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 15:20 on Tuesday 26 May 2009. The 31-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2009
- Tuesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40817, longitude -2.95882, 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
- 200905EE32910
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5340
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2001.
Slight
Fiat Fiorino crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 29 October 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050191094
Slight
Honda crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 8 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200405ET01327
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Kia Sedona crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 21 June 2006
At the same spotRef 200605EE09128
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5340 in Liverpool, 20 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200505ET01599
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 20 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200505ET01333
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 7 March 1995
10 m awayRef 1995050057242
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200905EE32910 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.