Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH43 on 7 September 2017 at 11:27 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 11:27 on Thursday 7 September 2017. The 46-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra, a 64-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra and a 24-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2017
- Thursday, 11:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39033, longitude -3.04293, in the CH43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oxton, Wirral, CH43 1UZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051702160
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 January 1981.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 3 January 1981
14 m awayRef 198105G300015
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 25 June 1998
18 m awayRef 1998050141377
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 19 October 1994
18 m awayRef 199405G256549
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 5 December 1989
18 m awayRef 198905G302398
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 15 August 1988
18 m awayRef 198805G301819
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 16 April 1992
18 m awayRef 199205G300762
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
- 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 2017051702160 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 2017.