Serious unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 16 June 2007 at 14:45 involving a Seat Leon
A motorcycle and a Seat Leon were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 14:45 on Saturday 16 June 2007. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 2007
- Saturday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4945, longitude -2.93227, in the L31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705BB18043
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 7 September 1983
28 m awayRef 198305B201843
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Sefton, 14 October 2001
121 m awayRef 2001050176591
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Liverpool, 18 September 1995
216 m awayRef 1995050216308
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 22 August 2000
228 m awayRef 2000050153661
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 4 September 1999
255 m awayRef 1999050181618
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 23 May 2008
255 m awayRef 200805BB25560
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200705BB18043 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.