B5151 crash in Wirral on 17 February 2015 at 07:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B5151 in Wirral at 07:20 on Tuesday 17 February 2015. The 25-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 24-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2015
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31612, longitude -3.02498, in the CH63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015051500520
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5151
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2013.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B5151 in Wirral, 17 May 2013
1 m awayRef 201305AA02706
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 4 June 1989
3 m awayRef 198905G401026
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B5151 in Wirral, 14 March 2001
3 m awayRef 2001050052294
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5151 in Wirral, 16 June 2007
3 m awayRef 200705AA18191
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the B5151 in Wirral, 4 July 1999
3 m awayRef 1999050135192
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 14 August 1996
3 m awayRef 1996050186611
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2015051500520 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 2015.