Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L8 on 14 July 2018 at 16:15 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 16:15 on Saturday 14 July 2018. The 33-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 30-year-old male driver of the Citroen C1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2018
- Saturday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C1 and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39773, longitude -2.95654, in the L8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Princes Park, Liverpool, L8 0TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051801649
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 562
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2014.
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 18 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201405FF05052
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 16 July 2019
1 m awayRef 2019051912099
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 26 March 2024
3 m awayRef 2024052400686
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 15 July 2018
3 m awayRef 2018051802111
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 7 February 2013
3 m awayRef 201305FF01431
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 16 March 2025
3 m awayRef 2025052500536
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- 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 2018051801649 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.