A5208 crash in Knowsley on 6 March 2012 at 12:15 involving a Citroen Berlingo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2012
- Tuesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen Berlingo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47278, longitude -2.85571, in the L70 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northwood, Knowsley, L33 7XZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205CC02111
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 1 October 2008.
Fatal
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5208 in Knowsley, 1 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200805CC28039
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on the A5208 in Knowsley, 31 July 2002
At the same spotRef 2002050144601
Serious
Minibus crash on the A5208 in Knowsley, 28 May 2004
14 m awayRef 200405CH00494
Slight
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 4 April 1991
85 m awayRef 199105C301074
Slight
Car crash on the A5208 in Knowsley, 19 November 1979
112 m awayRef 197905K200975
Slight
Honda Legend crash on the A5208 in Knowsley, 9 November 1993
114 m awayRef 199305C301661
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Berlingo)
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 201205CC02111 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 2012.