Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 20 October 2017 at 13:30 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a Keeway TX 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 13:30 on Friday 20 October 2017. The 17-year-old male rider of the Keeway TX 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2017
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Keeway TX 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62374, longitude -3.00297, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birkdale, Sefton, PR8 4HJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051702605
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2016.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 3 March 2016
4 m awayRef 2016051600767
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 15 June 1982
10 m awayRef 198205B401142
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 1 December 1997
13 m awayRef 1997050243835
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 6 March 1981
23 m awayRef 198105J400497
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 16 October 1981
51 m awayRef 198105B402251
Slight
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 17 August 2005
51 m awayRef 200505BS01268
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Keeway TX 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Keeway TX 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017051702605 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 2017.