Serious unclassified road crash in Liverpool L13 on 2 April 2025 at 15:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 15:30 on Wednesday 2 April 2025. The 17-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42702, longitude -2.92087, in the L13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoneycroft, Liverpool, L13 0BQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052500654
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A5049 in Liverpool, 7 July 1981
26 m awayRef 198105C100742
Slight
Car crash on the A5049 in Liverpool, 22 June 1981
26 m awayRef 198105C100680
Serious
DAF Trucks FTG 95XF crash on the A5049 in Liverpool, 3 November 2003
33 m awayRef 200305ET02704
Slight
Car crash on the A5049 in Liverpool, 15 May 1995
39 m awayRef 1995050115873
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5049 in Liverpool, 3 November 1999
43 m awayRef 1999050226013
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5058 in Liverpool, 3 November 2025
46 m awayRef 2025052502008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 2025052500654 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 2025.