A551 crash in Wirral on 10 June 2014 at 10:30 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A551 in Wirral at 10:30 on Tuesday 10 June 2014. The 45-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 2014
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Matiz and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41729, longitude -3.03769, in the CH44 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
- 201405AA03175
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 551
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 September 2024.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A551 in Wirral, 20 September 2024
2 m awayRef 2024052402073
Slight
Car crash on the B5144 in Wirral, 7 October 1981
8 m awayRef 198105G102799
Serious
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 16 May 1984
8 m awayRef 198405G101423
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A551 in Wirral, 13 August 1996
8 m awayRef 1996050186508
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A551 in Wirral, 24 September 2008
8 m awayRef 200805AA28028
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A551 in Wirral, 26 January 2004
8 m awayRef 200405AW00175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201405AA03175 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.