B5203 crash in St. Helens on 24 September 1989 at 14:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B5203 in St. Helens at 14:00 on Sunday 24 September 1989. A 7-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 24 Sep 1989
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50656, longitude -2.79395, 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
- 198905E301441
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2019.
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 9 January 2019
8 m awayRef 2019051910067
Slight
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 9 September 1983
14 m awayRef 198305E301019
Slight
Bus crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 14 March 1981
32 m awayRef 198105L100330
Slight
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 15 October 1982
36 m awayRef 198205E301204
Serious
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 21 January 1989
40 m awayRef 198905E300091
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 6 March 1987
40 m awayRef 198705E300301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, 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 198905E301441 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.