Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 8 January 1998 at 08:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 08:50 on Thursday 8 January 1998. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 1998
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51992, longitude -2.94699, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maghull.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998050009732
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B5424 in Sefton, 29 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198605B200679
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5147 in Sefton, 21 July 2002
At the same spotRef 2002050133243
Slight
Car crash on the B5424 in Sefton, 22 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198705B201956
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A567 in Sefton, 24 July 1996
At the same spotRef 1996050169164
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A567 in Sefton, 11 October 1991
At the same spotRef 199105B202073
Serious
Car crash on the A5147 in Sefton, 12 July 1979
At the same spotRef 197905J200657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 1998050009732 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 1998.