A561 crash in Liverpool on 30 September 2014 at 14:30 involving a mobility scooter
A mobility scooter and a car were involved in a crash on the A561 in Liverpool at 14:30 on Tuesday 30 September 2014. The 37-year-old female rider of the mobility scooter was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2014
- Tuesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mobility scooter and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37915, longitude -2.94919, 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 4JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201405FF04858
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 561
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 October 2014.
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 15 October 2014
2 m awayRef 201405FF05002
Serious
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 4 December 1982
4 m awayRef 198205F201916
Serious
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 10 September 1982
4 m awayRef 198205F201319
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 17 September 2008
8 m awayRef 200805FF27824
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 27 November 2011
8 m awayRef 201105FF06860
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 15 June 2002
8 m awayRef 2002050123454
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mobility scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 37, mobility scooter rider, on vehicle 1 (Mobility scooter)
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 201405FF04858 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.