A5137 crash in Wirral on 8 January 2006 at 23:20 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A5137 in Wirral at 23:20 on Sunday 8 January 2006. The 19-year-old male driver, a 19-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2006
- Sunday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33702, longitude -3.02901, in the CH63 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clatterbridge, Wirral, CH63 6HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200605AA04544
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2025.
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Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A5137 in Wirral, 29 August 2004
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A5137 in Wirral, 4 October 2003
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 17 January 2016
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200605AA04544 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 2006.