Serious unclassified road crash in Wirral CH42 on 7 January 2016 at 19:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wirral at 19:25 on Thursday 7 January 2016. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jan 2016
- Thursday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37288, longitude -3.00734, in the CH42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rock Ferry, Wirral, CH42 3TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016051600071
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5136
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 2023.
Serious
Renault Master crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 10 May 2023
At the same spotRef 2023052301060
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 27 February 2017
1 m awayRef 2017051700517
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B5172 in Wirral, 17 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025052502126
Serious
Renault Twingo crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 16 May 2019
1 m awayRef 2019051911327
Slight
Keeway Superlight crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 11 November 2014
1 m awayRef 2014051400258
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 19 January 2020
2 m awayRef 2020052000188
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2016051600071 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 2016.