A5036 crash in Sefton on 3 August 2012 at 19:30 involving a Volkswagen Urban
A Volkswagen Urban and a Chrysler Voyager were involved in a crash on the A5036 in Sefton at 19:30 on Friday 3 August 2012. An 83-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Urban was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2012
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Urban and Chrysler Voyager
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48127, longitude -2.968, in the L30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Netherton South & Orrell, Sefton, L30 1RY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205BB04464
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5036
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5036 in Sefton, 8 January 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050004777
Serious
Triumph crash on the A5036 in Sefton, 23 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200505BB00922
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 1 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200805BB23618
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A5036 in Sefton, 22 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200405BS01380
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the A5036 in Sefton, 30 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200505BS00421
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5036 in Sefton, 25 March 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050062255
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Urban
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Chrysler Voyager
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,776 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Urban)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201205BB04464 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.