Unclassified road crash in Sefton L38 on 22 April 2008 at 10:30 involving a Renault van
A Renault van and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 10:30 on Tuesday 22 April 2008. A 48-year-old male passenger in the Renault van 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
- 22 Apr 2008
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.52472, longitude -3.02858, in the L38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ince Blundell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Formby East, Sefton, L38 5DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200805BB24513
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2011.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 19 October 2011
10 m awayRef 201105BB07445
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 31 July 2015
15 m awayRef 2015051501880
Slight
BMW X5 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 9 March 2019
54 m awayRef 2019051910669
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 9 September 1987
80 m awayRef 198705B301853
Fatal
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 14 June 1988
94 m awayRef 198805B301170
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A565 in Sefton, 20 June 2001
108 m awayRef 2001050108681
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,174 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200805BB24513 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 2008.