B5178 crash in Liverpool on 24 December 2025 at 15:27 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van and an Audi Q2 were involved in a crash on the B5178 in Liverpool at 15:27 on Wednesday 24 December 2025. The 46-year-old female driver of the Audi Q2 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
- 24 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 15:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Audi Q2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40362, longitude -2.94279, 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 0EL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052502374
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5178
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 March 2019.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 1 March 2019
At the same spotRef 2019051910579
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 22 January 2025
2 m awayRef 2025052500138
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 April 2004
7 m awayRef 200405ET00837
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 11 April 2014
8 m awayRef 201405FF01093
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 8 February 2004
11 m awayRef 200405ET00297
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 15 February 2002
11 m awayRef 2002050033076
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Audi Q2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q2)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025052502374 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.