C road crash in Sefton L22 on 26 December 2002 at 10:28 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on a C road in Sefton at 10:28 on Thursday 26 December 2002. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 10:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48271, longitude -3.03148, in the L22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crosby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blundellsands, Sefton, L23 6XA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200205BS00570
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 November 2003.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Sefton, 15 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200305BS01791
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 5 February 1994
10 m awayRef 199405B304930
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 2 August 1997
45 m awayRef 1997050157985
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 November 2001
58 m awayRef 2001050207504
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 2 May 1993
108 m awayRef 199305B302559
Slight
Fiat 128 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 29 January 1992
108 m awayRef 199205B300200
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200205BS00570 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 2002.