Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L7 on 12 April 2023 at 02:09 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 02:09 on Wednesday 12 April 2023. The 50-year-old male rider was 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
- 12 Apr 2023
- Wednesday, 02:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3986, longitude -2.94876, in the L7 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
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023052300826
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 29 March 1980
26 m awayRef 198005E200261
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 2 November 1992
33 m awayRef 199205D302200
Slight
Van crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 20 November 1981
36 m awayRef 198105F201319
Slight
Car crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 17 October 1983
36 m awayRef 198305F201705
Slight
Bus crash on the A562 in Liverpool, 8 May 1985
37 m awayRef 198505D300943
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 23 May 2011
37 m awayRef 201105FF03351
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 249 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023052300826 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.