Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH60 on 5 July 1999 at 14:59 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van, a BMW 3 Series and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 14:59 on Monday 5 July 1999. The 46-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series was 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
- 5 Jul 1999
- Monday, 14:59
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33037, longitude -3.08005, in the CH60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heswall.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999050136883
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- A
- Second road number
- 551
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 January 1991.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A551 in Wirral, 2 January 1991
At the same spotRef 199105G400013
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A551 in Wirral, 21 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200805AA23479
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A551 in Wirral, 6 March 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050056603
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A551 in Wirral, 28 October 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050184693
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A551 in Wirral, 2 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200405AW01331
Slight
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 12 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198505G401601
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 1999050136883 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 1999.