Unclassified road crash in Sefton L30 on 3 October 2024 at 19:00 involving an MG ZS
A bicycle and an MG ZS were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sefton at 19:00 on Thursday 3 October 2024. The 11-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2024
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and MG ZS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48498, longitude -2.9749, in the L30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bootle.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024052402168
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 115 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2023.
Slight
Car crash on the A57 in Sefton, 27 September 2023
115 m awayRef 2023052302307
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 20 January 1989
120 m awayRef 198905B200117
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 9 March 1992
132 m awayRef 199205B200483
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 11 July 1986
132 m awayRef 198605B201482
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 6 December 1985
132 m awayRef 198505B202784
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 5 April 1987
132 m awayRef 198705B200684
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: MG ZS
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 11, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2024052402168 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 2024.