Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH61 on 12 April 2007 at 16:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 16:45 on Thursday 12 April 2007. The 56-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 12 Apr 2007
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34265, longitude -3.08397, in the CH61 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnston.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705AA16652
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2005.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A551 in Wirral, 12 March 2005
14 m awayRef 200505AW00378
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A551 in Wirral, 15 January 1990
22 m awayRef 199005G400084
Slight
Audi 90 crash on the A551 in Wirral, 24 September 1990
22 m awayRef 199005G401844
Serious
Rover Mini crash on the A551 in Wirral, 11 January 2001
36 m awayRef 2001050010204
Slight
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 19 October 1988
42 m awayRef 198805G402258
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A551 in Wirral, 29 May 1990
45 m awayRef 199005G401033
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200705AA16652 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 2007.