Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 23 February 1998 at 19:30 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 19:30 on Monday 23 February 1998. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 1998
- Monday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48898, longitude -2.91419, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998050040537
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 8 September 2000
10 m awayRef 2000050159630
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 27 December 2012
10 m awayRef 201205BB06652
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Sefton, 25 April 2005
14 m awayRef 200505BS00579
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199405B101496
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 22 June 1979
30 m awayRef 197905J200599
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Sefton, 11 May 2005
40 m awayRef 200505BS00711
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1998050040537 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.