Serious unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 8 August 2012 at 14:58 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 14:58 on Wednesday 8 August 2012. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 14:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51631, longitude -2.91224, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maghull.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205BB04534
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 November 2019.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 19 November 2019
89 m awayRef 2019051913020
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 July 1980
130 m awayRef 198005J201183
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Sefton, 23 December 2004
134 m awayRef 200405BS01940
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 9 August 1981
136 m awayRef 198105B201663
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 21 September 1991
139 m awayRef 199105B201935
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 22 November 1997
139 m awayRef 1997050237937
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201205BB04534 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.