Serious A565 crash in Liverpool on 30 August 2013 at 13:13 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A565 in Liverpool at 13:13 on Friday 30 August 2013. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Audi A3 was seriously injured and a 35-year-old female passenger in the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Aug 2013
- Friday, 13:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43064, longitude -2.99457, in the L5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Waterfront North, Liverpool, L20 8DY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305EE04100
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 565
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5055
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 13 June 1981
3 m awayRef 198105A100459
Slight
Car crash on the A5055 in Liverpool, 1 July 1984
3 m awayRef 198405A300648
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 30 November 1982
3 m awayRef 198205A101259
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 11 September 1997
3 m awayRef 1997050191168
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 13 November 1996
3 m awayRef 1996050257632
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A565 in Liverpool, 2 January 2004
8 m awayRef 200405ET00022
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- 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 201305EE04100 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.