Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L8 on 24 February 2018 at 12:00 involving a Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 12:00 on Saturday 24 February 2018. The 32-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2018
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha XC 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38699, longitude -2.94808, in the L8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arundel, Liverpool, L17 3BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051800440
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5089
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 January 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 7 January 1993
1 m awayRef 199305F200075
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B5342 in Liverpool, 23 August 1991
1 m awayRef 199105F201278
Serious
Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 27 May 1999
1 m awayRef 1999050112490
Slight
Leyland crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 19 January 1995
1 m awayRef 1995050020006
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 19 November 1991
1 m awayRef 199105F201819
Serious
Citroen Visa crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 31 October 1992
1 m awayRef 199205F201759
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Yamaha XC 125
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha XC 125)
- 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 2018051800440 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 2018.