Serious unclassified road crash in Wirral CH41 on 14 July 1987 at 18:50 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wirral at 18:50 on Tuesday 14 July 1987. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jul 1987
- Tuesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4059, longitude -3.02733, in the CH41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198705G101930
- Council area
- Wirral
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 75 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2017.
Slight
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Fatal
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A5139 in Wirral, 15 January 2006
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 198705G101930 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wirral road accident statistics for 1987.