A5098 crash in Sefton on 6 November 2009 at 16:53 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A5098 in Sefton at 16:53 on Friday 6 November 2009. The 42-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2009
- Friday, 16:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45494, longitude -2.99993, in the L20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bootle West, Sefton, L20 4HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905BB02659
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5098
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2010.
Slight
Car crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 10 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201005BB02436
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 20 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200905BB01236
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 25 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025052502174
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 12 November 2019
4 m awayRef 2019051912891
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 7 November 2013
6 m awayRef 201305BB05081
Slight
Ford Probe crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 15 May 1996
10 m awayRef 1996050113015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
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 200905BB02659 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.