Serious A57 crash in Liverpool on 19 August 2018 at 16:02 involving a BMW 3 Series
Four vehicles, including a BMW 3 Series and a Peugeot 308, were involved in a crash on the A57 in Liverpool at 16:02 on Sunday 19 August 2018. A 57-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 16:02
- Vehicles
- 4
- BMW 3 Series and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41356, longitude -2.91348, in the L13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Swan East, Liverpool, L13 5SA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051801938
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2019.
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 14 January 2019
3 m awayRef 2019051910142
Serious
Skoda Citigo crash on the A57 in Liverpool, 21 October 2024
4 m awayRef 2024052402311
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5189 in Liverpool, 21 April 1999
7 m awayRef 1999050082855
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5080 in Liverpool, 28 October 1997
7 m awayRef 1997050222850
Slight
Leyland crash on the A5080 in Liverpool, 21 April 1998
7 m awayRef 1998050083844
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5189 in Liverpool, 27 October 1998
7 m awayRef 1998050229097
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 308
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 4: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 3 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2018051801938 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.