Fatal unclassified road crash in Liverpool L15 on 13 November 2009 at 00:15 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 00:15 on Friday 13 November 2009. A 47-year-old male passenger was killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 13 Nov 2009
- Friday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39494, longitude -2.91551, in the L15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905FF02893
- Council area
- Liverpool
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 1992.
Slight
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Slight
FSO Cars Polonez crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 29 November 1990
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Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 13 February 2010
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Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 7 February 2012
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Serious
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 14 October 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050216047
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200605FF09641
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalMale, aged 47, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 200905FF02893 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.