Unclassified road crash in Sefton L21 on 24 November 1979 at 23:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 23:20 on Saturday 24 November 1979. A 58-year-old male pedestrian and the 16-year-old male rider were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1979
- Saturday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47695, longitude -2.99078, in the L21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Litherland.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197905J201144
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 3 October 1982
57 m awayRef 198205B201838
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 5 May 1991
71 m awayRef 199105B200935
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 18 January 2011
76 m awayRef 201105BB01276
Serious
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 2 August 2016
94 m awayRef 2016051602499
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 1 April 2008
94 m awayRef 200805BB24075
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 15 June 1991
106 m awayRef 199105B201211
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 197905J201144 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sefton road accident statistics for 1979.