A565 crash in Sefton on 4 February 1982 at 16:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A565 in Sefton at 16:55 on Thursday 4 February 1982. The 27-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and a 38-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1982
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6674, longitude -2.95998, in the PR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198205B400243
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 565
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1993.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A565 in Sefton, 1 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199305B201347
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A565 in Sefton, 9 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198905B400219
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A565 in Sefton, 8 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198505B400068
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A565 in Sefton, 20 August 2019
3 m awayRef 2019051912163
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A565 in Sefton, 20 July 2017
6 m awayRef 2017051701762
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A565 in Sefton, 10 October 2012
10 m awayRef 201205BB05479
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198205B400243 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 1982.