Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L25 on 30 December 2018 at 14:30 involving a Ford Tourneo
A Ford Tourneo and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 14:30 on Sunday 30 December 2018. The 42-year-old male driver of the Skoda Octavia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Tourneo and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36774, longitude -2.87877, in the L25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Springwood, Liverpool, L25 7BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051840799
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 August 1998.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5171 in Liverpool, 30 August 1998
6 m awayRef 1998050174724
Slight
Van crash on the B5171 in Liverpool, 16 January 1979
11 m awayRef 197905D100049
Slight
Car crash on the B5171 in Liverpool, 22 September 1983
25 m awayRef 198305F101558
Slight
Car crash on the B5171 in Liverpool, 13 August 1983
25 m awayRef 198305F101313
Fatal
Alexander Dennis crash on the B5171 in Liverpool, 4 July 2025
52 m awayRef 2025052501286
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the B5171 in Liverpool, 7 May 2003
75 m awayRef 200305FT00576
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Tourneo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
- 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 2018051840799 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.