C road crash in Wirral CH45 on 23 December 2014 at 16:22 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on a C road in Wirral at 16:22 on Tuesday 23 December 2014. The 37-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 56-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Agila were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 16:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Agila and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42087, longitude -3.04987, in the CH45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liscard, Wirral, CH44 5UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014051400764
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 May 1984.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 3 May 1984
44 m awayRef 198405G101295
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 5 April 1979
63 m awayRef 197905G100285
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 29 July 2002
66 m awayRef 2002050145571
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 11 May 1994
66 m awayRef 199405G100970
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 7 February 1994
66 m awayRef 199405G100591
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 26 November 1997
66 m awayRef 1997050243825
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Agila)
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 2014051400764 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.