Serious unclassified road crash in Knowsley L26 on 16 January 2019 at 08:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 08:30 on Wednesday 16 January 2019. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jan 2019
- Wednesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36252, longitude -2.83408, in the L26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Halewood South, Knowsley, L26 1XQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051910150
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 April 1996.
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 April 1996
18 m awayRef 1996050078840
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 28 October 1994
30 m awayRef 199405F360818
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 26 January 2010
34 m awayRef 201005CC01486
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 December 2015
88 m awayRef 2015051503185
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 3 September 1992
109 m awayRef 199205F301401
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 28 May 2001
117 m awayRef 2001050095258
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2019051910150 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 2019.