Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH46 on 14 December 2019 at 11:15 involving a Ford Focus
Four vehicles, including a Ford Focus and a Ford Transit Connect van, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 11:15 on Saturday 14 December 2019. An 82-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and the 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2019
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39406, longitude -3.11383, in the CH46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moreton West and Saughall Massie, Wirral, CH49 4NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051913216
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2020.
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 9 October 2020
1 m awayRef 2020052002083
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 30 May 2023
2 m awayRef 2023052301249
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 25 February 2019
2 m awayRef 2019051910551
Serious
Nissan Vanette crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 29 August 1990
7 m awayRef 199005G201658
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 29 August 1988
7 m awayRef 198805G201893
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 24 August 2005
7 m awayRef 200505AW01353
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Citroen Berlingo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019051913216 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.