Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH42 on 22 December 2007 at 14:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Nissan Primera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 14:45 on Saturday 22 December 2007. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Nissan Primera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37466, longitude -3.03217, in the CH42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birkenhead and Tranmere, Wirral, CH42 9NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705AA22111
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2000.
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 20 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050115145
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 6 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199405G201127
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A552 in Wirral, 5 April 2006
At the same spotRef 200605AA07022
Serious
Car crash on the A552 in Wirral, 15 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198605G402532
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wirral, 11 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200305AW02010
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the A552 in Wirral, 15 January 1991
At the same spotRef 199105G300095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200705AA22111 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.