Unclassified road crash in Sefton L29 on 28 August 1998 at 21:02 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 21:02 on Friday 28 August 1998. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 1998
- Friday, 21:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50729, longitude -2.98545, in the L29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998050177164
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
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The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2017.
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Honda crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 5 October 1999
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Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Sefton, 7 October 2001
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 September 1995
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 March 1987
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 1998050177164 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.