Serious unclassified road crash in Sefton L23 on 4 October 2000 at 18:30 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 18:30 on Wednesday 4 October 2000. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Oct 2000
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48249, longitude -3.0161, in the L23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crosby.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000050174658
- Council area
- Sefton
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 November 1995.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 20 November 1995
10 m awayRef 1995050269848
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 2 October 1997
10 m awayRef 1997050202823
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 6 July 1996
10 m awayRef 1996050154925
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 February 2017
14 m awayRef 2017051700492
Slight
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20 m awayRef 2025052501210
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 19 May 2023
22 m awayRef 2023052301163
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2000050174658 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.