Serious unclassified road crash in Liverpool L4 on 22 January 2023 at 00:50 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 00:50 on Sunday 22 January 2023. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jan 2023
- Sunday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44376, longitude -2.96334, in the L4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the County, Liverpool, L4 3QG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023052300201
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2023.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 12 May 2023
36 m awayRef 2023052301097
Slight
Car crash on the B5171 in Liverpool, 13 November 1993
43 m awayRef 199305C201682
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 24 February 1997
50 m awayRef 1997050048035
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 27 July 1997
50 m awayRef 1997050155142
Slight
Dennis crash on the A561 in Liverpool, 7 August 1990
57 m awayRef 199005F101332
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 17 March 1988
57 m awayRef 198805C200474
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- 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 2023052300201 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 2023.