Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L35 on 10 October 2013 at 08:54 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A car and a Skoda Octavia taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 08:54 on Thursday 10 October 2013. The 46-year-old male driver of the Skoda Octavia taxi and a 30-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2013
- Thursday, 08:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42809, longitude -2.78703, in the L35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prescot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eccleston, St. Helens, L34 2TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305CC04657
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2015.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 9 May 2015
5 m awayRef 2015051501230
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 11 December 1987
7 m awayRef 198705E301699
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 20 June 2008
7 m awayRef 200805CC25904
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 19 July 1985
75 m awayRef 198505E300821
Fatal
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 June 2005
87 m awayRef 200505CH00453
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 18 May 2011
138 m awayRef 201105CC03309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201305CC04657 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.