Unclassified road crash in Sefton L37 on 16 May 2019 at 03:00 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 03:00 on Thursday 16 May 2019. The 30-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2019
- Thursday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55417, longitude -3.04416, in the L37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Formby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Formby East, Sefton, L37 8RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051911301
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the B5195 in Sefton, 28 November 2018
4 m awayRef 2018051840515
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B5195 in Sefton, 26 April 2025
6 m awayRef 2025052500830
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B5195 in Sefton, 26 January 2006
7 m awayRef 200605BB05311
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5195 in Sefton, 16 December 2006
7 m awayRef 200605BB13879
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B5195 in Sefton, 13 December 2005
7 m awayRef 200505BB03754
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B5195 in Sefton, 7 November 1995
13 m awayRef 1995050258499
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2019051911301 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.