Serious A551 crash in Wirral on 4 September 2000 at 13:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a car and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A551 in Wirral at 13:50 on Monday 4 September 2000. The 30-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Sep 2000
- Monday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42212, longitude -3.06372, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000050157568
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 551
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A551 in Wirral, 21 July 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050134218
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A551 in Wirral, 26 July 1979
At the same spotRef 197905G100664
Serious
Car crash on the A5028 in Wirral, 24 July 1980
At the same spotRef 198005G101387
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1400 crash on the A551 in Wirral, 29 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200305AW00271
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A551 in Wirral, 18 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200805AA29745
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A551 in Wirral, 2 August 2008
At the same spotRef 200805AA26886
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 2000050157568 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 2000.