The account comes from Tom Slemen's Haunted Wirral column in the Wirral Globe, reposted by the Tripping on Legends site. In 1972, he writes, Bebington Council and Cheshire County Council discussed ways to cut out the Skew Bridge on Bromborough Road, which had become an accident black spot. One proposal was to divert Bebington Road in front of the Unilever research laboratory and west of the railway, joining a planned diversion of Spital Road across Port Sunlight golf course.
Some weeks before those discussions, Slemen says, there had been a number of crashes in which people saw a lady in white standing near the bridge before their vehicle suddenly and inexplicably crashed. One driver who was seriously injured said he felt the steering wheel twist as if a pair of invisible hands were turning it.
Slemen adds that the bridge had been reported as haunted decades earlier. Some said the figure looked medieval and wore a strange horned hat, probably an escoffion, a two-horned female headdress popular between about 1250 and 1500. He notes the white lady seems to move between different areas. I only saw the repost, so I have not checked the 1972 council papers or the crash reports. The exact spot is not given, and the pin is an estimate near the Bromborough Road railway bridge.
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