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Serious A5038 crash in Liverpool on 26 December 2012 at 22:30 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A5038 in Liverpool at 22:30 on Wednesday 26 December 2012. An 18-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
26 Dec 2012
Wednesday, 22:30
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40558, longitude -2.97862, in the L1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre North, Liverpool, L1 1HU area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
201205EE06661
Council area
Liverpool
Police force
Merseyside
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5038
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
Dry

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2012.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Taxi or private hire car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 201205EE06661 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.