Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR9 on 27 April 2009 at 18:30 involving a Subaru Impreza
A Subaru Impreza and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 18:30 on Monday 27 April 2009. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira and a 38-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were 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
- 27 Apr 2009
- Monday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Impreza and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6481, longitude -2.96849, in the PR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norwood, Sefton, PR9 7EX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200905BB32155
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 April 2017.
Serious
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Slight
Yamaha FJR 1300 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 19 August 2009
10 m awayRef 200905BB01208
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 8 January 2017
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Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 28 October 2025
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Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 July 2000
45 m awayRef 2000050124968
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 2 August 1983
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Impreza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200905BB32155 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.