Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 10 December 1987 at 19:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 19:45 on Thursday 10 December 1987. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1987
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64767, longitude -3.00945, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198705B402600
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B5245 in Sefton, 27 October 1980
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Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 27 December 2008
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 17 October 2009
50 m awayRef 200905BB03011
Slight
Car crash on the B5245 in Sefton, 7 July 1981
51 m awayRef 198105J401444
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 198705B402600 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.