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Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH44 on 25 December 1998 at 14:25 involving a car

Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 14:25 on Friday 25 December 1998. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
25 Dec 1998
Friday, 14:25
Vehicles
3
Car and 2 others
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41079, longitude -3.03362, in the CH44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey.

Map of where the crash happened in Wirral

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199805D017969
Council area
Wirral
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
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1993.

Vehicles involved (3)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    U-turn
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    34 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    U-turn
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    51 years

  • Vehicle 3: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)

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 199805D017969 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.