Serious unclassified road crash in Sefton PR9 on 11 July 2000 at 23:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 23:00 on Tuesday 11 July 2000. The 26-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 2000
- Tuesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64791, longitude -2.96909, in the PR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000050124968
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2020.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 17 May 2020
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Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 28 March 1996
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 8 January 2017
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Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 28 October 2025
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Slight
Yamaha FJR 1300 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 19 August 2009
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Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 14 October 1996
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 26, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2000050124968 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 2000.