A565 crash in Sefton on 21 June 2022 at 08:00 involving a Ford Transit van
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2022
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.52722, longitude -3.0322, in the L38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ince Blundell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Formby East, Sefton, L38 5DA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022052201499
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 565
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5193
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 January 2020.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A565 in Sefton, 17 January 2020
9 m awayRef 2020052000562
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A565 in Sefton, 20 September 2025
15 m awayRef 2025052501742
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 23 April 1981
21 m awayRef 198105J300879
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 18 November 2017
21 m awayRef 2017051702870
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in Sefton, 26 February 1984
21 m awayRef 198405B300419
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A565 in Sefton, 27 June 2021
21 m awayRef 2021052101360
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Ibiza)
- 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 2022052201499 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 2022.