Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L12 on 8 January 2012 at 17:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 17:15 on Sunday 8 January 2012. The 54-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2012
- Sunday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42635, longitude -2.88654, in the L12 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
- 201205EE01064
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 March 1990.
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 25 March 1990
10 m awayRef 199005D100743
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Peugeot 505 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 30 July 1995
22 m awayRef 1995050185998
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 17 October 1980
22 m awayRef 198005C100930
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 29 May 1994
22 m awayRef 199405D151476
Slight
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24 m awayRef 2025052501010
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 19 March 2018
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 201205EE01064 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 2012.