Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 14 September 2020 at 13:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 13:50 on Monday 14 September 2020. The 31-year-old male rider 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
- 14 Sep 2020
- Monday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.52537, longitude -2.94733, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lydiate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lydiate & Maghull West, Sefton, L31 2NR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020052001878
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 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, 177 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2009.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 7 July 2009
177 m awayRef 200905BB33496
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 16 September 1987
186 m awayRef 198705B201922
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 August 1984
200 m awayRef 198405B201693
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 7 November 1985
206 m awayRef 198505B202429
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5407 in Sefton, 23 June 2005
208 m awayRef 200505BS00939
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 12 October 1986
210 m awayRef 198605B202164
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2020052001878 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.