Unclassified road crash in Sefton L29 on 18 January 2016 at 04:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 04:30 on Monday 18 January 2016. The 19-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa, a 20-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 2016
- Monday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50511, longitude -2.97789, in the L29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016051600268
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 January 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 24 January 1981
41 m awayRef 198105J300185
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 31 March 1993, ref 199305B209859
178 m awayRef 199305B209859
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 31 March 1993, ref 199305B209809
178 m awayRef 199305B209809
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 9 June 1990
198 m awayRef 199005B401210
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 6 January 1999
228 m awayRef 1999050006205
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5207 in Sefton, 4 October 1984
241 m awayRef 198405B202125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2016051600268 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 2016.