Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L10 on 12 June 2013 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus taxi
A Ford Focus taxi, a Mazda 2 and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 18:30 on Wednesday 12 June 2013. All six casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2013
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 6
- 6 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4671, longitude -2.91485, in the L10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fazakerley East, Liverpool, L10 7NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305CC03055
- Council area
- Knowsley
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 1991.
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 5 April 1991
8 m awayRef 199105C100481
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 30 October 1982
8 m awayRef 198205C101464
Serious
Car crash on the B5194 in Knowsley, 26 May 1985
8 m awayRef 198505C100763
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 19 September 1991
8 m awayRef 199105C101395
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 29 November 1998
13 m awayRef 1998050247586
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 23 February 1983
13 m awayRef 198305C100270
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (6)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 6: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
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 201305CC03055 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 2013.