Serious B5208 crash in Sefton on 13 June 2013 at 12:17 involving a Mercedes ML Class
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jun 2013
- Thursday, 12:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes ML Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63683, longitude -3.00942, 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 5NH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305BB03097
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5208
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2000.
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 2 April 2000
8 m awayRef 2000050064250
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 24 March 2007
8 m awayRef 200705BB17204
Fatal
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 25 August 2004
8 m awayRef 200405BS01237
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 5 October 1989
16 m awayRef 198905B401864
Slight
Citroen Visa crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 22 April 1994
16 m awayRef 199405B230120
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5208 in Sefton, 14 May 1993
16 m awayRef 199305B403562
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 91, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes ML Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201305BB03097 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.