Serious unclassified road crash in Liverpool L3 on 24 December 2025 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall Grandland
A Vauxhall Grandland and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool at 20:00 on Wednesday 24 December 2025. The 17-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Grandland and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40139, longitude -2.99155, in the L3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the City Centre South, Liverpool, L1 8DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052600029
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2012.
Slight
Audi A7 crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 26 May 2012
25 m awayRef 201205EE03373
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 8 June 2013
28 m awayRef 201305EE02983
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 2 February 2003
109 m awayRef 200305ET00255
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 28 March 2016
113 m awayRef 2016051601163
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 2 July 1998
115 m awayRef 1998050135557
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A5036 in Liverpool, 24 April 2001
126 m awayRef 2001050073680
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Grandland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 17, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025052600029 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.