Unclassified road crash in Sefton L20 on 7 January 2019 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 19:00 on Monday 7 January 2019. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 2019
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46841, longitude -2.99713, in the L20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Litherland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ford, Sefton, L21 7LQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051910064
- 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
- 20 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 78 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1996.
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A5036 in Sefton, 8 February 1996
78 m awayRef 1996050036738
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A5090 in Sefton, 14 August 2001
86 m awayRef 2001050141579
Slight
Car crash on the A5036 in Sefton, 11 October 1985
90 m awayRef 198505B202218
Slight
Car crash on the A5090 in Sefton, 15 February 1982
95 m awayRef 198205B100326
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 26 March 2011
98 m awayRef 201105BB02439
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5090 in Sefton, 26 September 1986
102 m awayRef 198605B102059
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019051910064 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 2019.