Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 29 December 2010 at 07:35 involving a Renault Scenic
A Renault Scenic and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 07:35 on Wednesday 29 December 2010. The 76-year-old male driver of the Renault Scenic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2010
- Wednesday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Scenic and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63415, longitude -3.03486, in the PR8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201005BB07431
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A570 in Sefton, 14 May 2006
28 m awayRef 200605BB08282
Fatal
Kia Rio crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 15 January 2007
42 m awayRef 200705BB14375
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 12 February 1979
85 m awayRef 197905H100106
Slight
Leyland Roadrunner crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 16 December 1999
85 m awayRef 1999050248501
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 16 May 1997
91 m awayRef 1997050104077
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 3 August 1994
100 m awayRef 199405B296795
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Scenic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Scenic)
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 201005BB07431 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.