Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 19 December 2007 at 19:10 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 19:10 on Wednesday 19 December 2007. A 61-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64323, longitude -3.00256, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Duke's, Sefton, PR8 1BH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200705BB22017
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 570
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2003.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A570 in Sefton, 19 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200305BS00417
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in Sefton, 21 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198605B401113
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A570 in Sefton, 27 February 1992
At the same spotRef 199205B400403
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in Sefton, 23 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198805B402579
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 15 November 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050232457
Slight
Bus crash on the A570 in Sefton, 5 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198505B402735
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 200705BB22017 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.