Serious unclassified road crash in Wirral CH63 on 29 October 2025 at 00:05 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Wirral at 00:05 on Wednesday 29 October 2025. The 47-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Wednesday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32757, longitude -3.00152, in the CH63 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025052502001
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 102 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 June 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 15 June 1979
102 m awayRef 197905F200877
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 8 June 1979
102 m awayRef 197905F200835
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 24 June 2005
103 m awayRef 200505AW01113
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 27 October 1999
108 m awayRef 1999050214368
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 22 October 1992
108 m awayRef 199205G402048
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Wirral, 4 June 1999
108 m awayRef 1999050117736
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025052502001 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.