Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L8 on 9 October 2017 at 12:30 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 12:30 on Monday 9 October 2017. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 29-year-old male passenger in the Hyundai i30 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2017
- Monday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i30 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38904, longitude -2.96974, in the L8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dingle, Liverpool, L8 6AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051702477
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 561
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2025.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 29 December 2025
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Serious
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 4 February 1995
3 m awayRef 1995050028085
Fatal
Car crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 15 March 1982
3 m awayRef 198205F200361
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 19 January 2016
3 m awayRef 2016051600256
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 28 August 1996
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 30 January 2023
4 m awayRef 2023052300287
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- 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 2017051702477 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 2017.