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Serious unclassified road crash in Wirral CH46 on 9 April 1994 at 01:30 involving a Citroen BX taxi

A Citroen BX taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Wirral at 01:30 on Saturday 9 April 1994. A 58-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Apr 1994
Saturday, 01:30
Vehicles
1
Citroen BX
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40482, longitude -3.09861, in the CH46 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
199405G200768
Council area
Wirral
Police force
Merseyside

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Citroen BX

    Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 58, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen BX)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 199405G200768 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 1994.