Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR9 on 13 May 2003 at 20:30 involving a Ducati motorcycle
A Ducati motorcycle and a Ford Escort van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 20:30 on Tuesday 13 May 2003. The 29-year-old male rider of the Ducati motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2003
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ducati and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.648, longitude -2.99163, in the PR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cambridge, Sefton, PR9 9BF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200305BS00708
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2018.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 1 August 2018
9 m awayRef 2018051801783
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 12 June 2019
14 m awayRef 2019051911543
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 21 June 2021
25 m awayRef 2021052102506
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 December 2000
36 m awayRef 2000050005832
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 18 December 2005
36 m awayRef 200505BB03837
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 April 1985
36 m awayRef 198505B400967
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ducati
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 916 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Ducati)
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 200305BS00708 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.