B5137 crash in Wirral on 20 May 2025 at 18:30 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the B5137 in Wirral at 18:30 on Tuesday 20 May 2025. The 30-year-old male driver of the Mercedes A Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2025
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.34052, longitude -2.98576, in the CH62 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 2BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501011
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2022.
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 6 August 2022
2 m awayRef 2022052201970
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 10 May 1997
4 m awayRef 1997050111121
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 15 October 1997
4 m awayRef 1997050212928
Slight
MG Maestro crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 22 May 1996
4 m awayRef 1996050118166
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 14 October 1994
4 m awayRef 199405G354635
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5137 in Wirral, 26 September 1996
4 m awayRef 1996050229556
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025052501011 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 2025.