B5422 crash in Sefton on 27 July 2015 at 00:01 involving a Ford C-Max
A bus or coach and a Ford C-Max were involved in a crash on the B5422 in Sefton at 00:01 on Monday 27 July 2015. A 17-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach and a 20-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jul 2015
- Monday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49084, longitude -2.98902, in the L29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Netherton North, Sefton, L30 0QP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015051501840
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5422
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 20 March 1993
4 m awayRef 199305B209010
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 4 July 1991
4 m awayRef 199105B301368
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 17 July 1985
4 m awayRef 198505B201530
Slight
Bedford Midi crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 22 December 1992
4 m awayRef 199205B202771
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 15 June 1989
4 m awayRef 198905B101031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 16 February 1981
4 m awayRef 198105J200402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 2015051501840 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.