Serious A570 crash in St. Helens on 25 August 1983 at 17:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A570 in St. Helens at 17:35 on Thursday 25 August 1983. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 1983
- Thursday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.418, longitude -2.71195, in the WA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Helens.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198305E300950
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 570
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 February 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 9 February 1979
10 m awayRef 197905L100180
Slight
MG Montego crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 31 October 1994
14 m awayRef 199405E161896
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A569 in St. Helens, 29 May 2001
14 m awayRef 2001050098797
Slight
Bus crash on the A569 in St. Helens, 8 September 2004
20 m awayRef 200405DH00806
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 17 November 1997
28 m awayRef 1997050233065
Slight
Car crash on the A569 in St. Helens, 23 June 2006
30 m awayRef 200605DD09339
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198305E300950 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.