Serious B5202 crash in Knowsley on 17 March 2014 at 19:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on the B5202 in Knowsley at 19:05 on Monday 17 March 2014. The 74-year-old female driver of the Nissan Note was seriously injured and the 82-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 48-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Note were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Mar 2014
- Monday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45615, longitude -2.85341, in the L34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Knowsley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Prescot North, Knowsley, L34 9HQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201405CC02029
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5202
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 June 2013.
Serious
MAN crash on the B5194 in Knowsley, 17 June 2013
8 m awayRef 201305CC03124
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5194 in Knowsley, 27 October 1994
19 m awayRef 199405C363246
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5194 in Knowsley, 26 July 1998
22 m awayRef 1998050154031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 18 June 1982
29 m awayRef 198205C300806
Serious
Van crash on the B5202 in Knowsley, 22 June 2005
41 m awayRef 200505CH00522
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5194 in Knowsley, 16 February 2008
81 m awayRef 200805CC23402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Note)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Note)
- 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 201405CC02029 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 2014.