Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH62 on 11 August 1996 at 09:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wirral at 09:40 on Sunday 11 August 1996. The 19-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 1996
- Sunday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34054, longitude -2.98581, in the CH62 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996050183772
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5137
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 1997.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 15 October 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050212928
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Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 14 October 1994
At the same spotRef 199405G354635
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 10 May 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050111121
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Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 26 September 1996
At the same spotRef 1996050229556
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MG Maestro crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 22 May 1996
At the same spotRef 1996050118166
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 2 February 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050027520
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 19, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1996050183772 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.