B5204 crash in St. Helens on 28 January 1983 at 13:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B5204 in St. Helens at 13:45 on Friday 28 January 1983. The 48-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 1983
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43238, longitude -2.69714, in the WA9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198305E100095
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5204
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2018.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 14 December 2018
7 m awayRef 2018051840708
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 11 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025052502059
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 9 September 2022
10 m awayRef 2022052202240
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 7 October 2024
10 m awayRef 2024052402193
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 7 October 2015
12 m awayRef 2015051502439
Slight
BMW X4 crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 3 May 2024
12 m awayRef 2024052400957
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198305E100095 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St. Helens road accident statistics for 1983.