Serious A5089 crash in Liverpool on 3 January 2013 at 00:07 involving a Ford Transit minibus
A motorcycle and a Ford Transit minibus were involved in a crash on the A5089 in Liverpool at 00:07 on Thursday 3 January 2013. The 29-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 25-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jan 2013
- Thursday, 00:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4293, longitude -2.95999, in the L4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Anfield, Liverpool, L4 2QD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305EE01010
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5089
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5342 in Liverpool, 7 October 2018
1 m awayRef 2018051802355
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 October 2025
3 m awayRef 2025052501830
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 12 December 2012
4 m awayRef 201205EE06383
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 November 2008
4 m awayRef 200805EE28701
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 5 May 2011
4 m awayRef 201105EE03052
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 22 March 2011
4 m awayRef 201105EE03209
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201305EE01010 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 2013.