Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH49 on 24 October 2019 at 17:05 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, a Vauxhall Meriva and a Ford Fusion were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 17:05 on Thursday 24 October 2019. The 56-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Meriva was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2019
- Thursday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37048, longitude -3.09347, in the CH49 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upton, Wirral, CH49 7NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051912693
- Council area
- Wirral
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2000.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A551 in Wirral, 16 November 2000
4 m awayRef 2000050217166
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A551 in Wirral, 7 March 2013
13 m awayRef 201305AA01771
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A551 in Wirral, 30 November 2003
13 m awayRef 200305AW01956
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A551 in Wirral, 19 January 2009
13 m awayRef 200905AA30402
Slight
Dennis crash on the A551 in Wirral, 10 April 2003
13 m awayRef 200305AW00345
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A551 in Wirral, 12 February 2008
15 m awayRef 200805AA23293
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2019051912693 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 2019.