C road crash in Sefton L29 on 11 February 2003 at 20:40 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Sefton at 20:40 on Tuesday 11 February 2003. The 42-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2003
- Tuesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50572, longitude -2.98921, in the L29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200305BS00218
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2023.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 18 March 2023
8 m awayRef 2023052300652
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 13 October 1997
14 m awayRef 1997050211968
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 March 1987
242 m awayRef 198705B400583
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A59 in Sefton, 10 October 1998
255 m awayRef 1998050212060
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Sefton, 7 October 2001
280 m awayRef 2001050171084
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 5 October 1999
288 m awayRef 1999050198820
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 42, on vehicle 2 (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 200305BS00218 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 2003.