Overview
- Just before 5:40am, a Toyota Yaris collided with a Peugeot 108 and a wall on Mab Lane in West Derby, and the Toyota driver remains in a critical condition in hospital.
- Merseyside Police opened an investigation into the Mab Lane crash and asked for witnesses and dashcam footage, specifically seeking a female dog walker who reportedly called an ambulance.
- Officers provided contact routes for information on the Mab Lane collision, asking people to quote log 125 of Friday 27 February via Merseyside Police social channels, 101 or Crimestoppers.
- At about 9:40am, a police car responding to an emergency collided with another car at Belvidere Road and Malpas Road in Wallasey, and two adults from the car were taken to hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening as a police officer was taken as a precaution.
- Merseyside Fire and Rescue extricated two trapped occupants in Wallasey by removing a car roof and using a longboard stretcher, with crews leaving the scene at 11:07am as road closures and traffic management continued.