Serious unclassified road crash in Wirral CH41 on 14 September 2024 at 17:10 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wirral at 17:10 on Saturday 14 September 2024. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Sep 2024
- Saturday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.39394, longitude -3.03056, in the CH41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birkenhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birkenhead and Tranmere, Wirral, CH41 6NZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024052402003
- Council area
- Wirral
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A553 in Wirral, 12 October 1980
13 m awayRef 198005G302195
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A553 in Wirral, 14 July 1999
13 m awayRef 1999050149999
Slight
Car crash on the A553 in Wirral, 17 August 1986
13 m awayRef 198605G302253
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A553 in Wirral, 18 February 2012
13 m awayRef 201205AA01948
Slight
BMW crash on the A553 in Wirral, 10 March 2000
13 m awayRef 2000050049648
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A553 in Wirral, 27 June 2012
13 m awayRef 201205AA03919
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024052402003 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 2024.