A562 crash in Liverpool on 24 January 2016 at 13:09 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars were involved in a crash on the A562 in Liverpool at 13:09 on Sunday 24 January 2016. The 47-year-old male driver of vehicle 2, a 50-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and a 13-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 13:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36191, longitude -2.8681, in the L25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Much Woolton & Hunts Cross, Liverpool, L25 0PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016051600301
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 562
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2017.
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 6 May 2017
1 m awayRef 2017051701175
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 30 November 2025
2 m awayRef 2025052502208
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 20 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025052502125
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 14 December 2019
7 m awayRef 2019051913243
Serious
Car crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 11 November 1988
13 m awayRef 198805F101778
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 11 April 2018
14 m awayRef 2018051800811
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016051600301 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 2016.