Unclassified road crash in Sefton L21 on 3 September 2020 at 16:27 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 16:27 on Thursday 3 September 2020. The 26-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2020
- Thursday, 16:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46327, longitude -2.99434, in the L21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Litherland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bootle East, Sefton, L20 5GA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020052001774
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 4 April 1996
11 m awayRef 1996050083581
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 January 2017
17 m awayRef 2017051700270
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 2 December 1994
21 m awayRef 199405B189201
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 21 August 1985
21 m awayRef 198505B101820
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 25 January 2024
21 m awayRef 2024052400232
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 7 June 1982
59 m awayRef 198205B101093
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 26, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2020052001774 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 2020.