Serious unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 13 June 1987 at 23:15 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 23:15 on Saturday 13 June 1987. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jun 1987
- Saturday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48861, longitude -2.9273, in the L31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198705B201185
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 120 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 1985.
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 July 1985
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 22 October 1986
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Serious
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Sefton, 1 July 2003
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Slight
Peugeot crash on a C road in Sefton, 14 October 2003
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198705B201185 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 1987.