A540 crash in Wirral on 8 August 2012 at 14:20 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38376, longitude -3.18485, in the CH47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hoylake.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205AA04588
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 540
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2017.
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A540 in Wirral, 12 December 2017
3 m awayRef 2017051703075
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on the A540 in Wirral, 20 October 2016
3 m awayRef 2016051603329
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A540 in Wirral, 15 September 1991
40 m awayRef 199105G201724
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A540 in Wirral, 7 August 1987
71 m awayRef 198705G202146
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A540 in Wirral, 16 December 1999
91 m awayRef 1999050247589
Slight
Car crash on the A540 in Wirral, 31 May 1986
91 m awayRef 198605G201510
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 18, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201205AA04588 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wirral road accident statistics for 2012.