A562 crash in Liverpool on 1 February 2013 at 14:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A562 in Liverpool at 14:30 on Friday 1 February 2013. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2013
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35251, longitude -2.86489, in the L24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Garston, Liverpool, L24 8QH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305FF01333
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 562
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2013.
Slight
Pulse WY 125 crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 15 October 2013
1 m awayRef 201305FF04758
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 30 March 2000
8 m awayRef 2000050063375
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 6 July 2011
12 m awayRef 201105FF04107
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 20 December 2006
12 m awayRef 200605EE14089
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5275 in Liverpool, 13 June 2006
12 m awayRef 200605FF08948
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 12 January 2001
12 m awayRef 2001050010544
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 750 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 201305FF01333 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.