A566 crash in Sefton on 27 April 2012 at 09:20 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2012
- Friday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45897, longitude -2.99039, in the L20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bootle East, Sefton, L20 5GA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205BB03015
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 566
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A566 in Sefton, 12 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198905B102376
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on the A566 in Sefton, 16 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200405BS00714
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A566 in Sefton, 18 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199105B102374
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A566 in Sefton, 24 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200405BS00566
Slight
Car crash on the A566 in Sefton, 10 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198905B101687
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A566 in Sefton, 17 November 2012
At the same spotRef 201205BB05975
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201205BB03015 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 2012.