Unclassified road crash in Sefton PR8 on 26 December 2018 at 17:44 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 17:44 on Wednesday 26 December 2018. The 77-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 17:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64136, longitude -2.99373, in the PR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kew, Sefton, PR8 6JH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051840780
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2019.
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 9 January 2019
21 m awayRef 2019051910075
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 March 1984
51 m awayRef 198405B400661
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 7 December 1987
89 m awayRef 198705B402583
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A570 in Sefton, 8 April 1997
118 m awayRef 1997050085055
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 June 1993
129 m awayRef 199305B405596
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A570 in Sefton, 29 January 1997
131 m awayRef 1997050023056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 2018051840780 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.