Serious A580 crash in Liverpool on 4 May 2015 at 02:19 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and an Audi S5 were involved in a crash on the A580 in Liverpool at 02:19 on Monday 4 May 2015. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Audi S5 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 May 2015
- Monday, 02:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Audi S5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44175, longitude -2.9328, in the L11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clubmoor East, Liverpool, L4 8UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015051501575
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 580
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 1991.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 18 March 1991
4 m awayRef 199105C200379
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 24 February 1990
9 m awayRef 199005C100275
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 27 August 1996
9 m awayRef 1996050197263
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 15 June 2022
10 m awayRef 2022052201442
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 12 May 1980
11 m awayRef 198005B100517
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 5 March 1993
12 m awayRef 199305C200304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Audi S5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi S5)
- 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 2015051501575 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.