A5147 crash in Sefton on 27 January 2015 at 17:30 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A5147 in Sefton at 17:30 on Tuesday 27 January 2015. The 53-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira and a 72-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Fabia 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2015
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51432, longitude -2.94525, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maghull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maghull East, Sefton, L31 6FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015051500296
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5147
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2022.
Slight
BMW F 650 GS crash on the A5147 in Sefton, 23 March 2022
2 m awayRef 2022052200716
Slight
Audi A5 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 7 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025052501497
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 3 July 1992
7 m awayRef 199205B201396
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A567 in Sefton, 15 May 1997
7 m awayRef 1997050103382
Slight
Car crash on the A567 in Sefton, 24 December 1993
8 m awayRef 199305B137707
Slight
Fiat Marea crash on the A5147 in Sefton, 27 February 1999
9 m awayRef 1999050047958
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015051500296 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 2015.