Serious B5136 crash in Wirral on 13 September 2013 at 05:40 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5136 in Wirral at 05:40 on Friday 13 September 2013. The 28-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 2013
- Friday, 05:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.35733, longitude -2.99447, in the CH62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bebington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 5EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305AA04331
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5136
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Wirral, 26 January 1981
3 m awayRef 198105G400245
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Wirral, 13 April 1988
7 m awayRef 198805G401015
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 5 May 1998
7 m awayRef 1998050097038
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 9 May 1991
7 m awayRef 199105G400892
Serious
Suzuki GZ 125 crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 18 November 2008
7 m awayRef 200805AA29135
Slight
Car crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 30 September 1989
7 m awayRef 198905G401819
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 28, 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 201305AA04331 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 2013.