A57 crash in Liverpool on 24 December 2011 at 02:33 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Land Rover were involved in a crash on the A57 in Liverpool at 02:33 on Saturday 24 December 2011. The 32-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 26-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 02:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Land Rover
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41995, longitude -2.87707, in the L14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Derby Leyfield, Liverpool, L14 2DE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201105EE07235
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- Road type
- Dual 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on a C road in Liverpool, 1 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200405ET02560
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 1 June 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050096969
Serious
Taxi crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 24 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198605D100535
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 27 May 1993
At the same spotRef 199305D200936
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 26 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198505D100850
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 19 February 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050036464
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Land Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 201105EE07235 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 2011.