Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L17 on 17 May 2018 at 23:13 involving a Ford Tourneo taxi
A car and a Ford Tourneo taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 23:13 on Thursday 17 May 2018. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Tourneo taxi and a 46-year-old male passenger in the Ford Tourneo taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2018
- Thursday, 23:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Tourneo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38379, longitude -2.93262, in the L17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenbank Park, Liverpool, L17 1AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051801404
- Council area
- Liverpool
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 27 September 1979
16 m awayRef 197905E200804
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 9 January 1987
57 m awayRef 198705F200048
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 22 June 2020
62 m awayRef 2020052001218
Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Liverpool, 22 August 2003
64 m awayRef 200305FT01048
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 19 September 1990
76 m awayRef 199005F201583
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 14 June 1985
90 m awayRef 198505F200979
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Tourneo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Tourneo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Tourneo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018051801404 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.