Unclassified road crash in Sefton L10 on 3 May 1998 at 19:45 involving a Peugeot Boxer minibus
A Peugeot Boxer minibus and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 19:45 on Sunday 3 May 1998. The 72-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Boxer minibus, a 71-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot Boxer minibus and a 3-year-old male passenger in the Rover 200 Series were 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
- 3 May 1998
- Sunday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Boxer and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48383, longitude -2.94045, in the L10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aintree.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998050089689
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2002.
Slight
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 19 August 1999
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Boxer
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Boxer)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Boxer)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 1998050089689 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.