B5208 crash in Sefton on 24 March 2007 at 17:05 involving a Citroen Xsara
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2007
- Saturday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63679, longitude -3.00952, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birkdale, Sefton, PR8 5NH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705BB17204
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Other
- 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 fatal crash on 25 August 2004.
Fatal
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 25 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200405BS01237
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 2 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050064250
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 13 June 2013
8 m awayRef 201305BB03097
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 5 October 1989
10 m awayRef 198905B401864
Slight
Citroen Visa crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 22 April 1994
10 m awayRef 199405B230120
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 14 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199305B403562
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
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 200705BB17204 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 2007.