A565 crash in Sefton on 20 July 2015 at 08:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A565 in Sefton at 08:30 on Monday 20 July 2015. The 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2015
- Monday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66601, longitude -2.96152, in the PR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meols, Sefton, PR9 8NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015051501802
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 565
- 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
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 9 January 2004
6 m awayRef 200405BS00032
Serious
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 8 May 1979
6 m awayRef 197905H100356
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in Sefton, 23 October 1997
16 m awayRef 1997050218328
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 18 June 1982
20 m awayRef 198205B401150
Serious
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 20 April 1979
20 m awayRef 197905H100298
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A565 in Sefton, 20 June 1997
44 m awayRef 1997050129633
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2015051501802 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.