Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 14 December 2017 at 12:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 12:00 on Thursday 14 December 2017. The 40-year-old female cyclist was 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
- 14 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64474, longitude -3.00422, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Duke's, Sefton, PR8 1BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051703140
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2014.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A570 in Sefton, 23 May 2014
3 m awayRef 201405BB02937
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in Sefton, 4 October 1980
7 m awayRef 198005J401649
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A570 in Sefton, 7 August 2001
11 m awayRef 2001050135090
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A570 in Sefton, 3 August 2003
17 m awayRef 200305BS01172
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in Sefton, 22 June 2025
18 m awayRef 2025052501215
Serious
Bus crash on the A570 in Sefton, 1 May 1979
19 m awayRef 197905H100338
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 40, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2017051703140 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.