Unclassified road crash in Liverpool L15 on 31 December 2025 at 16:25 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 16:25 on Wednesday 31 December 2025. A 53-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39848, longitude -2.91825, in the L15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smithdown, Liverpool, L15 3HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052600024
- 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
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2020.
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 2 December 2020
7 m awayRef 2020052002492
Slight
BMW F 650 GS crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 17 June 2016
8 m awayRef 2016051601997
Serious
Taxi crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 21 July 1983
10 m awayRef 198305D301402
Slight
Taxi crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 21 November 2021
12 m awayRef 2021052102639
Slight
Car crash on the B5178 in Liverpool, 21 May 1982
12 m awayRef 198205D300983
Slight
Car crash on the B5179 in Liverpool, 15 November 1981
12 m awayRef 198105D301651
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- 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 2025052600024 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.