Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L9 on 2 March 2020 at 23:40 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 23:40 on Monday 2 March 2020. The 17-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2020
- Monday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46004, longitude -2.93146, in the L9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fazakerley East, Liverpool, L11 2ST area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020052000613
- 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
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 74 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 3 March 1999
74 m awayRef 1999050048146
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 22 March 1985
103 m awayRef 198505C100439
Serious
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Liverpool, 31 May 2005
112 m awayRef 200505ET01219
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 10 March 1992
112 m awayRef 199205C100332
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 29 December 1999
123 m awayRef 1999050003317
Slight
Suzuki Celerio crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 18 November 2021
136 m awayRef 2021052102531
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020052000613 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 2020.