Serious A570 crash in St. Helens on 12 November 1989 at 02:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A570 in St. Helens at 02:30 on Sunday 12 November 1989. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Nov 1989
- Sunday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45549, longitude -2.73983, in the WA10 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Helens.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198905E101797
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 570
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 21 August 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A5059 in St. Helens, 21 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200905DD01303
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 21 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198905E101081
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 25 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198905E101646
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 20 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198805E101620
Slight
HGV crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 24 June 2025
10 m awayRef 2025052501223
Slight
Bus crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 4 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198305E101308
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198905E101797 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.