M62 crash in Knowsley on 30 June 2010 at 19:15 involving a Mini One
A Mini One and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the M62 in Knowsley at 19:15 on Wednesday 30 June 2010. The 20-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2010
- Wednesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini One and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4082, longitude -2.87307, in the L14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huyton with Roby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanside, Knowsley, L14 6TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201005CC04059
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 62
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the M62 in Knowsley, 15 May 1984
20 m awayRef 198405D400933
Slight
Car crash on the M62 in Knowsley, 21 September 1982
20 m awayRef 198205D401753
Slight
Honda crash on the A5058 in Knowsley, 11 August 1998
32 m awayRef 1998050168530
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the M62 in Knowsley, 15 December 2008
32 m awayRef 200805CC29669
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M62 in Knowsley, 8 September 1999
32 m awayRef 1999050184629
Slight
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the M62 in Knowsley, 15 December 2008
32 m awayRef 200805CC29701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201005CC04059 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 2010.