Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH41 on 16 December 2019 at 17:15 involving a Sym Jet motorcycle
A Sym Jet motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wirral at 17:15 on Monday 16 December 2019. The 62-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2019
- Monday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Sym Jet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40441, longitude -3.06176, in the CH41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bidston and St James, Wirral, CH43 7SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051913240
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 4 March 1997
33 m awayRef 1997050048255
Serious
Volvo XC60 crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 30 June 2025
45 m awayRef 2025052501302
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 2 August 1984
57 m awayRef 198405G302269
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 11 July 2007
59 m awayRef 200705AA19501
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 6 February 1997
67 m awayRef 1997050032121
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 18 June 1985
73 m awayRef 198505G301647
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Sym Jet
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym Jet)
- 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 2019051913240 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.