A5056 crash in Liverpool on 1 August 2012 at 20:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A5056 in Liverpool at 20:00 on Wednesday 1 August 2012. The 68-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat and a 69-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Passat were 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
- 1 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43743, longitude -2.98687, in the L20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirkdale West, Liverpool, L20 7BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205EE04461
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5056
- 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
- 567
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2004.
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the A567 in Liverpool, 17 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200405ET00632
Slight
Car crash on the A567 in Liverpool, 13 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201005EE02670
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A567 in Liverpool, 25 November 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050053754
Slight
Volvo S60 crash on the A567 in Liverpool, 12 March 2012
At the same spotRef 201205EE02160
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A567 in Liverpool, 18 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200305ET00375
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A567 in Liverpool, 23 April 1991
At the same spotRef 199105A100332
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 201205EE04461 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.