B5421 crash in Sefton on 20 August 2011 at 03:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B5421 in Sefton at 03:45 on Saturday 20 August 2011. A 23-year-old male passenger in the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 2011
- Saturday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47108, longitude -3.01507, in the L21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crosby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Waterloo, Sefton, L21 1AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201105BB04868
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5421
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 December 1988.
Serious
Taxi crash on the B5421 in Sefton, 10 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198805B302434
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B5421 in Sefton, 26 April 2005
At the same spotRef 200505BS00601
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5421 in Sefton, 15 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200605BB12168
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B5421 in Sefton, 3 March 2003
At the same spotRef 200305BS00354
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198705B300363
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B5421 in Sefton, 25 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201105BB05468
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 201105BB04868 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 2011.