Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L26 on 25 February 2017 at 18:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 18:15 on Saturday 25 February 2017. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2017
- Saturday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36096, longitude -2.83816, in the L26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Halewood South, Knowsley, L26 1XQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051700515
- Council area
- Knowsley
- 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
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 20 November 2025.
Serious
Peugeot 2008 crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 20 November 2025
At the same spotRef 2025052502124
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 May 1989
5 m awayRef 198905F300647
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 27 October 1990
5 m awayRef 199005F301836
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 24 January 1986
5 m awayRef 198605F300121
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 7 September 1992
5 m awayRef 199205F301407
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 3 March 1994
5 m awayRef 199405F300366
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017051700515 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 2017.