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B5203 crash in St. Helens on 4 September 1987 at 15:00 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter crashed on the B5203 in St. Helens at 15:00 on Friday 4 September 1987. The 24-year-old female rider 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
4 Sep 1987
Friday, 15:00
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50539, longitude -2.79317, in the WA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rainford.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198705E301202
Council area
St. Helens
Police force
Merseyside

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
5203
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Female, aged 24, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 198705E301202 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 1987.