Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR9 on 18 March 2003 at 13:40 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda, a Mazda 121 and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 13:40 on Tuesday 18 March 2003. The 24-year-old male driver of the Fiat Panda was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2003
- Tuesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Panda and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64615, longitude -2.99809, in the PR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Duke's, Sefton, PR8 1BH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200305BS00404
- 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
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 121
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Engine capacity
- 1,324 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
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 200305BS00404 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.