A5098 crash in Sefton on 26 February 2010 at 11:40 involving a Renault lorry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2010
- Friday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45537, longitude -3.00175, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201005BB02060
- 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
- Other junction
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 2008.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 19 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200805BB29079
Slight
Taxi crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 5 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198605B100728
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 6 January 1996
10 m awayRef 1996050007502
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the A8098 in Sefton, 20 January 1993
10 m awayRef 199305B105344
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 October 2025
14 m awayRef 2025052501945
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 8 June 2016
19 m awayRef 2016051601970
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,116 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201005BB02060 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 2010.