B5178 crash in Liverpool on 2 December 2020 at 06:40 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2020
- Wednesday, 06:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3985, longitude -2.91836, in the L15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smithdown, Liverpool, L15 3HA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020052002492
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5178
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2021.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 21 November 2021
5 m awayRef 2021052102639
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 9 April 1980
6 m awayRef 198005D200340
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 15 July 1982
6 m awayRef 198205D301307
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 6 December 1979
6 m awayRef 197905D201149
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 31 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025052600024
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 21 May 1982
7 m awayRef 198205D300983
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2020052002492 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.