A5267 crash in Sefton on 21 August 2012 at 19:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A5267 in Sefton at 19:30 on Tuesday 21 August 2012. A 10-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra, a 9-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 31-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were 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
- 21 Aug 2012
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62436, longitude -3.01285, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birkdale, Sefton, PR8 4HJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205BB04693
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5267
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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 11 June 1984.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198405B301221
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A565 in Sefton, 29 June 1981
At the same spotRef 198105J401380
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A5267 in Sefton, 18 April 2002
At the same spotRef 2002050071728
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 16 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198105B402475
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 13 September 2002
At the same spotRef 2002050171504
Slight
Bus crash on the A5267 in Sefton, 17 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200305BS01939
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 201205BB04693 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.