A570 crash in St. Helens on 8 November 1991 at 13:15 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno crashed on the A570 in St. Helens at 13:15 on Friday 8 November 1991. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 1991
- Friday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42934, longitude -2.72478, in the WA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Helens.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199105E101762
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 570
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 1992.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 2 April 1992
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Serious
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Slight
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Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A569 in St. Helens, 24 August 2025
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Slight
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 7 May 1980
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 903 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Uno)
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 199105E101762 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 1991.