Serious A5088 crash in Wirral on 8 October 2018 at 13:30 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Sport
A motorcycle and a Land Rover Range Rover Sport were involved in a crash on the A5088 in Wirral at 13:30 on Monday 8 October 2018. The 50-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Oct 2018
- Monday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Land Rover Range Rover Sport
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41883, longitude -3.04284, in the CH44 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Liscard, Wirral, CH44 5UW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051840169
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5088
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5088 in Wirral, 26 August 2016
1 m awayRef 2016051602806
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A551 in Wirral, 15 January 2015
3 m awayRef 2015051500147
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A551 in Wirral, 27 December 2000
10 m awayRef 2000050226398
Slight
Mini One crash on the A551 in Wirral, 4 September 2012
10 m awayRef 201205AA04848
Slight
Bus crash on the A551 in Wirral, 24 February 1979
10 m awayRef 197905G100149
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A551 in Wirral, 5 September 2002
10 m awayRef 2002050174354
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 647 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 4,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018051840169 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 2018.