Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L1 on 26 September 2025 at 18:43 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 18:43 on Friday 26 September 2025. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2025
- Friday, 18:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39556, longitude -2.97989, in the L1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canning, Liverpool, L1 7BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501804
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2020.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5037 in Liverpool, 6 March 2020
38 m awayRef 2020052000656
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on the A5037 in Liverpool, 31 December 2020
40 m awayRef 2020052100013
Slight
Nissan Note crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 10 July 2013
40 m awayRef 201305EE03454
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 5 December 2001
41 m awayRef 2001050212106
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5037 in Liverpool, 21 October 2019
42 m awayRef 2019051912668
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 5 December 2022
43 m awayRef 2022052203108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2025052501804 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.