Unclassified road crash in Wirral CH46 on 1 July 2025 at 18:00 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wirral at 18:00 on Tuesday 1 July 2025. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C4 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40763, longitude -3.11494, in the CH46 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wallasey.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501271
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 17 December 1981
13 m awayRef 198105G203680
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A551 in Wirral, 2 July 2021
30 m awayRef 2021052101319
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A551 in Wirral, 17 August 1998
63 m awayRef 1998050167209
Serious
Citroen Xantia crash on the A551 in Wirral, 27 September 2007
63 m awayRef 200705AA20211
Serious
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 20 September 1986
71 m awayRef 198605G202584
Slight
Car crash on the A551 in Wirral, 8 August 1988
71 m awayRef 198805G201805
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025052501271 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.