A554 crash in Wirral on 5 July 2025 at 19:30 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Volkswagen CC were involved in a crash on the A554 in Wirral at 19:30 on Saturday 5 July 2025. The 42-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen CC was 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
- 5 Jul 2025
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Volkswagen CC
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42465, longitude -3.07891, in the CH45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501298
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 554
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2009.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A554 in Wirral, 12 September 2009
7 m awayRef 200905AA01580
Slight
Alfa Romeo Sprint crash on the A554 in Wirral, 14 June 1991
7 m awayRef 199105G101124
Slight
Honda crash on the A551 in Wirral, 16 June 1996
7 m awayRef 1996050139547
Slight
Car crash on the A554 in Wirral, 6 March 1989
7 m awayRef 198905G100414
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A554 in Wirral, 20 July 2004
7 m awayRef 200405AW01258
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A554 in Wirral, 3 May 1997
7 m awayRef 1997050093667
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen CC
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen CC)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025052501298 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.