Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 30 May 2018 at 16:55 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 16:55 on Wednesday 30 May 2018. The 43-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 May 2018
- Wednesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Speedfight and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48938, longitude -2.91378, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Aintree & Maghull South, Sefton, L31 1BQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051801210
- 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
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 March 2009
3 m awayRef 200905BB31679
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 14 February 2013
10 m awayRef 201305BB01496
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 25 May 1996
14 m awayRef 1996050133103
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 27 October 1994
14 m awayRef 199405B160509
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 1 January 1979
17 m awayRef 197905J200008
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 9 July 2019
25 m awayRef 2019051911831
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018051801210 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 2018.