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Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH49 on 25 December 1996 at 19:45 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wirral at 19:45 on Wednesday 25 December 1996. The 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Dec 1996
Wednesday, 19:45
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38336, longitude -3.10572, in the CH49 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wirral

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1996050005189
Council area
Wirral
Police force
Merseyside

Road and location details

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

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
5027

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 1996050005189 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 1996.