Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L17 on 27 November 2011 at 21:00 involving a Mercedes 200
A Mercedes 200 and a Skoda Octavia taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 21:00 on Sunday 27 November 2011. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2011
- Sunday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes 200 and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37912, longitude -2.94929, in the L17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 4JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201105FF06860
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 561
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 June 2002.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 15 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002050123454
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 14 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200305FT01462
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 27 April 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050073766
Slight
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 1 March 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050040681
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 14 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200305FT00451
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 17 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200805FF27824
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes 200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- 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 201105FF06860 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.