Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH44 on 21 February 2001 at 19:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wirral at 19:50 on Wednesday 21 February 2001. A 56-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2001
- Wednesday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41939, longitude -3.05658, in the CH44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liscard, Wirral, CH44 3EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001050038176
- Council area
- Wirral
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 16 February 1993.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A551 in Wirral, 16 February 1993
At the same spotRef 199305G100319
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A551 in Wirral, 22 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198805G102280
Serious
Car crash on the B5142 in Wirral, 4 August 1982
At the same spotRef 198205G102012
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A551 in Wirral, 27 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198805G101102
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A551 in Wirral, 16 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201005AA06580
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A551 in Wirral, 2 February 1984
10 m awayRef 198405G100392
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2001050038176 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 2001.