Serious unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 8 December 2021 at 17:21 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 17:21 on Wednesday 8 December 2021. A 77-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2021
- Wednesday, 17:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51462, longitude -2.95032, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maghull.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021052102744
- 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
- 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
- Raining 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 2022.
Serious
DAF crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 2 September 2022
5 m awayRef 2022052202177
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 23 June 1985
15 m awayRef 198505B201337
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5422 in Sefton, 13 October 1998
15 m awayRef 1998050211377
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 February 1996
19 m awayRef 1996050036716
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 30 May 1997
19 m awayRef 1997050113364
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 26 June 1982
22 m awayRef 198205B201237
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- 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
- 66 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 77, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2021052102744 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 2021.