Serious B5407 crash in Sefton on 16 March 2013 at 16:35 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda XL1000V motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5407 in Sefton at 16:35 on Saturday 16 March 2013. The 51-year-old male rider of the Honda XL1000V motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Mar 2013
- Saturday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda XL1000V
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.52337, longitude -2.94565, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lydiate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lydiate & Maghull West, Sefton, L31 2NR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305BB01899
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5407
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2013.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5407 in Sefton, 25 November 2013
At the same spotRef 201305BB05364
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5407 in Sefton, 3 November 2000
6 m awayRef 2000050194597
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 October 1985
6 m awayRef 198505B202227
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5407 in Sefton, 15 December 1992
6 m awayRef 199205B202720
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 14 May 1986
6 m awayRef 198605B201063
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B5407 in Sefton, 23 July 1994
6 m awayRef 199405B184307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Honda XL1000V
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda XL1000V)
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 201305BB01899 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.