Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH41 on 23 December 2014 at 10:18 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi
A Volkswagen Passat taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wirral at 10:18 on Tuesday 23 December 2014. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 10:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39014, longitude -3.01994, in the CH41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birkenhead and Tranmere, Wirral, CH41 6NZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014051400758
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A552 in Wirral, 26 November 2001
2 m awayRef 2001050207544
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A552 in Wirral, 26 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199405G300624
Slight
Bus crash on the A552 in Wirral, 11 March 1989
10 m awayRef 198905G300449
Serious
Taxi crash on the A552 in Wirral, 15 January 1982
10 m awayRef 198205G100118
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the A552 in Wirral, 9 April 1993
10 m awayRef 199305G300614
Serious
Scania crash on the A552 in Wirral, 12 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200405AW01366
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2014051400758 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 2014.