Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L25 on 25 December 2010 at 18:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 18:30 on Saturday 25 December 2010. The 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and a 21-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2010
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39389, longitude -2.8624, in the L25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belle Vale, Liverpool, L25 2PW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201005FF07389
- 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
- 20 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
- 5178
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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 11 February 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 11 February 1981
At the same spotRef 198105D100145
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 30 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200905FF02007
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 31 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200605FF09258
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 24 August 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050154685
Serious
Proton Persona crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 8 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200405FT01498
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 25 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198405F100164
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 201005FF07389 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 2010.