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Serious unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 10 February 2013 at 12:00 involving a VDL bus

A VDL bus crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 12:00 on Sunday 10 February 2013. A 40-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Feb 2013
Sunday, 12:00
Vehicles
1
VDL
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.60397, longitude -3.04907, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ainsdale, Sefton, PR8 2QA area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
201305BB01587
Council area
Sefton
Police force
Merseyside
Police attended the scene
No

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
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

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 7 September 2024.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: VDL

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    North
    Position at junction
    Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Journey as part of work
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years
    Engine capacity
    6,700 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (VDL)

    Bus or coach passenger
    Alighting

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 201305BB01587 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 2013.