Unclassified road crash in Sefton L23 on 7 August 1988 at 13:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 13:20 on Sunday 7 August 1988. A 6-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 1988
- Sunday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49949, longitude -3.00442, in the L23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crosby.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198805B301558
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2016.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 October 2019
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Slight
Honda FR-V crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 23 February 2022
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Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 3 March 2006
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 September 1995
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198805B301558 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 1988.