Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L9 on 16 January 2015 at 16:45 involving a Peugeot Expert van
A Peugeot Expert van and a Skoda Rapid taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 16:45 on Friday 16 January 2015. The 51-year-old male driver of the Skoda Rapid taxi, a 49-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Rapid taxi and a 14-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Rapid taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2015
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Expert and Skoda Rapid
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45051, longitude -2.93818, in the L9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walton, Liverpool, L9 7BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015051500189
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2002.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 24 May 2002
12 m awayRef 2002050107598
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 26 April 2003
26 m awayRef 200305ET01015
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 16 August 1990
43 m awayRef 199005C201155
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 19 April 1991
62 m awayRef 199105C100572
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 29 December 2024
66 m awayRef 2024052402890
Serious
Car crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 18 January 1984
71 m awayRef 198405C200100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Rapid
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Rapid)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Rapid)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Rapid)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2015051500189 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 2015.