A561 crash in Liverpool on 16 February 2012 at 17:20 involving an Audi A2
An Audi A2 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A561 in Liverpool at 17:20 on Thursday 16 February 2012. The 21-year-old female driver of the Audi A2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A2 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39464, longitude -2.97611, in the L1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canning, Liverpool, L1 7BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205EE01862
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 561
- 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
- 562
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 30 March 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050062026
Slight
Dennis crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 7 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200805EE24852
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 26 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200605EE14622
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 20 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200505ET01346
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 1 October 2010
At the same spotRef 201005FF05642
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 3 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201105FF05579
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A2)
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 201205EE01862 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.