A41 crash in Wirral on 23 April 2015 at 07:48 involving a Land Rover Freelander
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2015
- Thursday, 07:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31164, longitude -2.96383, in the CH62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bebington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eastham, Wirral, CH62 9EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015051501078
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2016.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A41 in Wirral, 5 July 2016
15 m awayRef 2016051602194
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A41 in Wirral, 19 August 1993
25 m awayRef 199305G401582
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A41 in Wirral, 5 April 2001
32 m awayRef 2001050060953
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A41 in Wirral, 5 January 2001
36 m awayRef 2001050011268
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A41 in Wirral, 10 December 1999
46 m awayRef 1999050243872
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A41 in Wirral, 31 July 1997
50 m awayRef 1997050160233
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 2015051501078 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.