Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L4 on 2 August 2024 at 11:55 involving a Toyota C-HR taxi
A Toyota C-HR taxi and a Volkswagen Beetle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 11:55 on Friday 2 August 2024. The 34-year-old male driver of the Toyota C-HR taxi, the 49-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Beetle and a 17-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Beetle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2024
- Friday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota C-HR and Volkswagen Beetle
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44318, longitude -2.95914, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024052401683
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2011.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 29 September 2011
4 m awayRef 201105EE05590
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Volkswagen Golf crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 18 October 2011
4 m awayRef 201105EE05988
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MG HS crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 September 2025
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 12 November 2021
5 m awayRef 2021052102549
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Ford Puma crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 23 May 2014
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Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A580 in Liverpool, 16 January 2004
6 m awayRef 200405ET00099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota C-HR
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota C-HR)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024052401683 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 2024.