Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH43 on 7 February 2009 at 13:04 involving a Suzuki Wagon R+
A Suzuki Wagon R+ and a Nissan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 13:04 on Saturday 7 February 2009. The 67-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Wagon R+, the 51-year-old male driver of the Nissan and a 60-year-old female passenger in the Nissan were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 2009
- Saturday, 13:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Wagon R+ and Nissan
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39042, longitude -3.06954, in the CH43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905AA30757
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 12 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198805G201185
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 8 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198505G203541
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Wirral, 31 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200305AO00112
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 25 May 1996
At the same spotRef 1996050123912
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 28 February 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050039568
Slight
Renault 25 crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 20 February 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050038830
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Wagon R+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,660 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan)
- 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 200905AA30757 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 2009.