Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 22 October 2009 at 08:35 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 08:35 on Thursday 22 October 2009. A 12-year-old male pedestrian 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 Oct 2009
- Thursday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51296, longitude -2.93886, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maghull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maghull East, Sefton, L31 6FB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905BB02356
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2025.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 June 2025
11 m awayRef 2025052501143
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 18 December 1997
14 m awayRef 1997050260149
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 14 July 1994
32 m awayRef 199405B179906
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 25 November 1997
32 m awayRef 1997050241962
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 29 May 1980
36 m awayRef 198005J200775
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 15 January 1996
41 m awayRef 1996050018727
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200905BB02356 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 2009.