A5048 crash in Liverpool on 29 November 2025 at 11:50 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A5048 in Liverpool at 11:50 on Saturday 29 November 2025. The 58-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 59-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X5 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40306, longitude -2.96197, in the L7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kensington & Fairfield, Liverpool, L7 8TQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052502207
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5048
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the A5048 in Liverpool, 30 April 2018
1 m awayRef 2018051800962
Slight
Car crash on the A5048 in Liverpool, 30 March 2022
1 m awayRef 2022052200819
Serious
Honda crash on the A5048 in Liverpool, 8 August 2016
2 m awayRef 2016051602557
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A5048 in Liverpool, 28 October 2014
2 m awayRef 2014051400086
Slight
Car crash on the A5048 in Liverpool, 16 November 2014
2 m awayRef 2014051400322
Slight
BMW F 800 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 13 February 2019
2 m awayRef 2019051910416
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025052502207 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.