Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH42 on 15 September 1993 at 09:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 09:30 on Wednesday 15 September 1993. The 49-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 1993
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3731, longitude -3.04729, in the CH42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199305G201766
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 552
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A552 in Wirral, 25 May 1979
14 m awayRef 197905F200765
Slight
Car crash on the A552 in Wirral, 24 December 1979
22 m awayRef 197905F202071
Slight
Car crash on the A552 in Wirral, 12 January 1979
22 m awayRef 197905F200062
Slight
Car crash on the A552 in Wirral, 19 January 1988
30 m awayRef 198805G300198
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A552 in Wirral, 23 November 1991
30 m awayRef 199105G302333
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A552 in Wirral, 29 November 1992
30 m awayRef 199205G302370
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, 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 199305G201766 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 1993.