Serious unclassified road crash in Wirral CH42 on 16 December 2017 at 21:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wirral at 21:30 on Saturday 16 December 2017. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37301, longitude -3.03122, in the CH42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051703131
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B5149 in Wirral, 10 November 1980
9 m awayRef 198005G302501
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A552 in Wirral, 11 April 1988
32 m awayRef 198805G300994
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A552 in Wirral, 6 November 1980
33 m awayRef 198005G302451
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 21 September 2018
35 m awayRef 2018051802310
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 16 October 1982
38 m awayRef 198205G302718
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A552 in Wirral, 17 June 1990
40 m awayRef 199005G301164
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017051703131 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.