M6 crash in St. Helens on 16 June 1983 at 15:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the M6 in St. Helens at 15:30 on Thursday 16 June 1983. The 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 1983
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46941, longitude -2.63221, in the WA12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198305E200706
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2021.
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Honda FR-V crash on the A580 in St. Helens, 19 April 2021
9 m awayRef 2021052100622
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Mercedes crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 28 November 2025
29 m awayRef 2025052502203
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 1 July 2007
32 m awayRef 200705DD18557
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 3 June 1999
32 m awayRef 1999050141023
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A49 in St. Helens, 17 August 1994
36 m awayRef 199405E205487
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Ford Fiesta crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 22 November 2005
36 m awayRef 200505DD03226
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, 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 198305E200706 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.