Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L8 on 4 August 2025 at 21:55 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 21:55 on Monday 4 August 2025. The 17-year-old male driver 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
- 4 Aug 2025
- Monday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39803, longitude -2.94978, 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
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501485
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 2003.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 25 March 2003
5 m awayRef 200305ET00722
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 27 June 2003
5 m awayRef 200305FT00796
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 4 October 2004
5 m awayRef 200405FT01195
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 4 April 2005
5 m awayRef 200505FT00329
Serious
Car crash on the A5089 in Liverpool, 1 February 2013
8 m awayRef 201305FF02967
Slight
Car crash on the B5173 in Liverpool, 6 April 1996
9 m awayRef 1996050082849
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2025052501485 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.