Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L8 on 17 December 2022 at 20:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 20:00 on Saturday 17 December 2022. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2022
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39834, longitude -2.94928, in the L8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Princes Park, Liverpool, L8 0TY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022052203248
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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 unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2022.
Slight
Car crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 31 October 2022
At the same spotRef 2022052202729
Slight
Bus crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 5 December 1979
9 m awayRef 197905D201131
Slight
Car crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 23 January 1981
9 m awayRef 198105D200080
Slight
Car crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 17 October 1983
13 m awayRef 198305F201705
Slight
Van crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 20 November 1981
13 m awayRef 198105F201319
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 18 June 2012
14 m awayRef 201205FF03828
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2022052203248 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 2022.