B5187 crash in Liverpool on 30 December 2025 at 13:25 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the B5187 in Liverpool at 13:25 on Tuesday 30 December 2025. A 28-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45734, longitude -2.94711, in the L9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Liverpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walton, Liverpool, L9 7BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Liverpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052600217
- Council area
- Liverpool
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5187
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 March 2013.
Serious
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the B5187 in Liverpool, 17 March 2013
8 m awayRef 201305EE01876
Slight
Car crash on the B5187 in Liverpool, 8 July 2010
19 m awayRef 201005EE04160
Serious
Car crash on the B5187 in Liverpool, 26 August 2022
19 m awayRef 2022052202119
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5187 in Liverpool, 24 January 2000
22 m awayRef 2000050020596
Slight
Car crash on the B5187 in Liverpool, 6 February 1984
22 m awayRef 198405C100206
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 8 October 1982
22 m awayRef 198205C101340
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 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: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2025052600217 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.