B5422 crash in Sefton on 22 December 2017 at 18:00 involving a Citroen DS3
A Citroen DS3 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5422 in Sefton at 18:00 on Friday 22 December 2017. The 27-year-old female driver of the Citroen DS3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2017
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen DS3 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48022, longitude -2.99649, in the L21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ford, Sefton, L21 0DB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051703191
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5422
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 July 1996.
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 22 July 1996
5 m awayRef 1996050166504
Slight
Car crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 15 March 1995
5 m awayRef 1995050062599
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 24 April 1995
5 m awayRef 1995050093440
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 21 December 1996
5 m awayRef 1996050286684
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 22 May 2019
6 m awayRef 2019051911532
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 13 April 2023
6 m awayRef 2023052300844
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen DS3)
- 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 2017051703191 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.