Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 21 December 1981 at 10:00 involving a minibus
A minibus crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 10:00 on Monday 21 December 1981. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1981
- Monday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Minibus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62863, longitude -3.03954, in the PR8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198105B402808
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Minibus
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Minibus)
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 198105B402808 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 1981.