Serious unclassified road crash in Knowsley L36 on 8 May 2017 at 17:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 17:00 on Monday 8 May 2017. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 May 2017
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4239, longitude -2.83782, in the L36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huyton with Roby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stockbridge, Knowsley, L36 8HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051701124
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2003.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Knowsley, 3 December 2003
6 m awayRef 200305CH01131
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 12 June 2010
13 m awayRef 201005CC03722
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 20 October 1991
18 m awayRef 199105D401953
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 December 1997
18 m awayRef 1997050244311
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 1 March 1981
19 m awayRef 198105K100218
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 1 August 1990
24 m awayRef 199005D401471
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017051701124 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.