Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 7 August 2025 at 16:45 involving an Audi A5
An Audi A5 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sefton at 16:45 on Thursday 7 August 2025. A 59-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 7 Aug 2025
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.51436, longitude -2.94526, in the L31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maghull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maghull East, Sefton, L31 6FB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052501497
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2022.
Slight
BMW F 650 GS crash on the A5147 in Sefton, 23 March 2022
2 m awayRef 2022052200716
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A5147 in Sefton, 27 January 2015
4 m awayRef 2015051500296
Slight
Car crash on the A567 in Sefton, 24 December 1993
6 m awayRef 199305B137707
Slight
Car crash on the A567 in Sefton, 5 June 1989
11 m awayRef 198905B201017
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 3 July 1992
11 m awayRef 199205B201396
Slight
Honda Prelude crash on the A567 in Sefton, 15 June 1995
11 m awayRef 1995050141141
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A5)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025052501497 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 2025.