Unclassified road crash in Knowsley L32 on 19 August 2025 at 16:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 16:40 on Tuesday 19 August 2025. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47536, longitude -2.88518, in the L32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitefield, Knowsley, L32 8RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501564
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 19 March 1997
4 m awayRef 1997050062463
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 28 March 1996
4 m awayRef 1996050078799
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 28 October 1989
6 m awayRef 198905C301441
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 16 April 1994
6 m awayRef 199405C326516
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 26 January 1986
6 m awayRef 198605C300140
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 12 October 1993
6 m awayRef 199305C301471
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2025052501564 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 2025.