A554 crash in Wirral on 2 August 2022 at 17:25 involving an Audi
An Audi and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A554 in Wirral at 17:25 on Tuesday 2 August 2022. The 51-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai and a 54-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2022
- Tuesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41363, longitude -3.07351, in the CH44 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wallasey, Wirral, CH45 8RH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022052201937
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 554
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A5139 in Wirral, 7 November 2012
1 m awayRef 2012050590312
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A5139 in Wirral, 1 February 2025
2 m awayRef 2025052500240
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on the A5139 in Wirral, 17 July 2004
6 m awayRef 200405AW01292
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 8 January 1981
6 m awayRef 198105G300076
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A554 in Wirral, 3 July 2012
6 m awayRef 201205AA03985
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A5139 in Wirral, 10 July 2007
6 m awayRef 200705AA18674
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2022052201937 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 2022.