Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH46 on 23 December 2006 at 12:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wirral at 12:30 on Saturday 23 December 2006. An 87-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 23 Dec 2006
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40547, longitude -3.1149, in the CH46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leasowe and Moreton East, Wirral, CH46 8TW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200605AA14009
- Council area
- Wirral
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 May 1984.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 6 May 1984
42 m awayRef 198405G201328
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 19 April 1992
71 m awayRef 199205G200752
Slight
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 26 November 2001
73 m awayRef 2001050204633
Serious
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 12 January 1983
73 m awayRef 198305G200069
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A551 in Wirral, 10 May 1979
73 m awayRef 197905G200430
Slight
Dennis crash on the A551 in Wirral, 12 May 2005
80 m awayRef 200505AW00754
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 87, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200605AA14009 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.