Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L17 on 6 August 2014 at 20:10 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 20:10 on Wednesday 6 August 2014. The 34-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris and a 70-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Yaris were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2014
- Wednesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37943, longitude -2.95061, in the L17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 8TP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201405FF04040
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- A
- Second road number
- 561
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 28 August 2014
3 m awayRef 201405FF04286
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 5 March 2011
6 m awayRef 201105FF02002
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 9 January 1990
6 m awayRef 199005F200085
Slight
Lorry crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 11 October 1986
6 m awayRef 198605F201638
Slight
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 3 February 1984
6 m awayRef 198405F200235
Serious
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 12 November 1995
9 m awayRef 1995050267262
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 201405FF04040 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 2014.