Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 14 December 2009 at 17:47 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 17:47 on Monday 14 December 2009. The 83-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet slip road with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2009
- Monday, 17:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.5113, longitude -2.94425, 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
- 200905BB03403
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 59
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 1999.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A59 in Sefton, 9 March 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050050556
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A59 in Sefton, 16 January 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050012748
Slight
Audi crash on the A59 in Sefton, 11 December 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050223057
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A59 in Sefton, 6 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200605BB04472
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A59 in Sefton, 19 April 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050081616
Serious
Foden crash on the A59 in Sefton, 30 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200305BS01139
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200905BB03403 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.