A599 crash in St. Helens on 5 August 1983 at 10:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A599 in St. Helens at 10:05 on Friday 5 August 1983. The 36-year-old female rider of the motorcycle 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
- 5 Aug 1983
- Friday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46901, longitude -2.65676, in the WA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haydock.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198305E200872
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 599
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 5 January 2016
19 m awayRef 2016051600036
Slight
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 17 December 1981
20 m awayRef 198105E202439
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 21 January 1991
20 m awayRef 199105E200116
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 16 April 2009
22 m awayRef 200905DD32173
Serious
Keeway TX 125 crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 6 March 2017
24 m awayRef 2017051700575
Slight
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 11 December 2025
25 m awayRef 2025052502286
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 36, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198305E200872 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.