B5149 crash in Wirral on 29 December 1998 at 12:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B5149 in Wirral at 12:40 on Tuesday 29 December 1998. The 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra, a 2-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 23-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1998
- Tuesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36474, longitude -3.01567, in the CH42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998050003088
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5149
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5148
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 8 March 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the B5149 in Wirral, 8 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200605AA06384
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5149 in Wirral, 27 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199005G302778
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5148 in Wirral, 5 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200705AA17141
Serious
Piaggio X9 crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 30 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200805AA26872
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5149 in Wirral, 13 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199205G401529
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 4 April 1986
At the same spotRef 198605G400916
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 1998050003088 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 1998.