A5038 crash in Liverpool on 18 May 2018 at 16:40 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van and a Ford C-Max were involved in a crash on the A5038 in Liverpool at 16:40 on Friday 18 May 2018. The 21-year-old male driver of the Ford C-Max and the 45-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Partner van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2018
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43566, longitude -2.98452, in the L4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kirkdale West, Liverpool, L20 7BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051801121
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5038
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 December 1989.
Serious
Taxi crash on the A5038 in Liverpool, 20 December 1989
21 m awayRef 198905A301112
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5038 in Liverpool, 18 March 1993
21 m awayRef 199305A100236
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 1 March 1994
21 m awayRef 199405A111534
Slight
Car crash on the A5038 in Liverpool, 10 May 1982
21 m awayRef 198205A300488
Slight
Car crash on the A5038 in Liverpool, 13 March 2004
24 m awayRef 200405ET00551
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5038 in Liverpool, 7 January 1998
29 m awayRef 1998050007403
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford C-Max)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018051801121 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.