B5204 crash in St. Helens on 26 October 1989 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5204 in St. Helens at 16:30 on Thursday 26 October 1989. The 26-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 1989
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43255, longitude -2.68239, in the WA9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198905E101718
- 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
- 60 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1983.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 5 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198305E101316
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 8 August 1982
20 m awayRef 198205E300885
Slight
Car crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 18 July 2006
22 m awayRef 200605DD10290
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on a C road in St. Helens, 13 February 2002
22 m awayRef 2002050038975
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 25 October 2010
22 m awayRef 201005DD06121
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 30 July 2015
27 m awayRef 2015051501922
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 26, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198905E101718 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 1989.