Unclassified road crash in Sefton L20 on 7 March 2019 at 08:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 08:00 on Thursday 7 March 2019. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2019
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45395, longitude -2.99334, in the L20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bootle West, Sefton, L20 7HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051910688
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 May 2014.
Serious
Ford Streetka crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 30 May 2014
4 m awayRef 201405BB03029
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 22 December 2011
6 m awayRef 201105BB07215
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 26 October 2001
9 m awayRef 2001050189819
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 9 September 1996
18 m awayRef 1996050204178
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 17 October 1983
24 m awayRef 198305B102169
Slight
Car crash on the A5098 in Sefton, 29 July 2004
27 m awayRef 200405BS01126
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2019051910688 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.