Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L1 on 8 October 2025 at 16:50 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 16:50 on Wednesday 8 October 2025. A 12-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
- 8 Oct 2025
- Wednesday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40735, longitude -2.98239, in the L1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre North, Liverpool, L1 1HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501854
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2023.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 14 April 2023
4 m awayRef 2023052300853
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 26 May 2021
4 m awayRef 2021052100965
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 6 December 2021
5 m awayRef 2021052102740
Slight
MAN crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 30 April 2022
6 m awayRef 2022052201059
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 23 December 2017
8 m awayRef 2017051703220
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 14 November 2016
8 m awayRef 2016051603754
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,696 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 2025052501854 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.