Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L2 on 21 April 2018 at 22:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 22:00 on Saturday 21 April 2018. A 38-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2018
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40461, longitude -2.99203, in the L2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre North, Liverpool, L3 9LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051800942
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2004.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A5059 in Liverpool, 18 August 2004
5 m awayRef 200405ET01854
Slight
Bus crash on the A5059 in Liverpool, 20 April 1991
5 m awayRef 199105A200331
Slight
Bus crash on the A5039 in Liverpool, 26 June 1979
12 m awayRef 197905A200576
Slight
Volvo crash on the A5059 in Liverpool, 21 June 2001
17 m awayRef 2001050111691
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A5059 in Liverpool, 23 April 2007
17 m awayRef 200705EE16925
Serious
Reliant Metrocab crash on the A5059 in Liverpool, 7 October 2001
19 m awayRef 2001050171600
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2018051800942 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.