Unclassified road crash in Sefton L20 on 13 September 1995 at 01:45 involving a Ford Orion taxi
A Ford Orion taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 01:45 on Wednesday 13 September 1995. A 23-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 1995
- Wednesday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45898, longitude -2.99051, in the L20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995050209407
- Council area
- Sefton
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 566
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1982.
Slight
Taxi crash on the A566 in Sefton, 22 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198205B101392
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A566 in Sefton, 17 November 2012
10 m awayRef 201205BB05975
Slight
Car crash on the A566 in Sefton, 12 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198905B102376
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A566 in Sefton, 16 May 2004
10 m awayRef 200405BS00714
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A566 in Sefton, 24 April 2004
10 m awayRef 200405BS00566
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A566 in Sefton, 18 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199105B102374
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1995050209407 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 1995.