Serious A562 crash in Liverpool on 30 May 2016 at 12:40 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira, a Ford Focus and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A562 in Liverpool at 12:40 on Monday 30 May 2016. The 37-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was seriously injured and a 9-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was 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
- Serious
- Date
- 30 May 2016
- Monday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37569, longitude -2.94098, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016051601783
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dry
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2001.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 16 September 2001
2 m awayRef 2001050158900
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 31 July 2003
2 m awayRef 200305FT00944
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 12 December 1998
2 m awayRef 1998050252915
Slight
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 30 June 1987
2 m awayRef 198705F201138
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 29 October 2007
2 m awayRef 200705FF20823
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 September 1982
2 m awayRef 198205F201265
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
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
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2016051601783 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.