Unclassified road crash in Sefton L38 on 20 November 1992 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Fiat Panda and a Ford Transit lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 17:00 on Friday 20 November 1992. The 48-year-old female driver of the Fiat Panda was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 1992
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51511, longitude -3.02801, in the L38 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199205B302473
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 170 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 1987.
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 September 1987
170 m awayRef 198705B302030
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 29 February 1996
201 m awayRef 1996050053756
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 23 September 1988
250 m awayRef 198805B301874
Slight
Car crash on the B5193 in Sefton, 1 July 1992
260 m awayRef 199205B301395
Fatal
Minibus crash on the B5193 in Sefton, 4 August 1986
260 m awayRef 198605B301655
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A565 in Sefton, 19 December 1992
383 m awayRef 199205B302736
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Panda)
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 199205B302473 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 1992.