B5209 crash in St. Helens on 3 July 1991 at 17:15 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the B5209 in St. Helens at 17:15 on Wednesday 3 July 1991. The 34-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 1991
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46216, longitude -2.6437, in the WA12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199105E201048
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5209
- Road type
- Single 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 October 1981.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 9 October 1981
40 m awayRef 198105E202095
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 26 August 2024
54 m awayRef 2024052401841
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 28 July 2000
57 m awayRef 2000050140895
Serious
Car crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 27 November 1980
64 m awayRef 198005L201388
Serious
Van crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 4 August 1986
80 m awayRef 198605E201016
Slight
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 21 June 2019
89 m awayRef 2019051911622
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 199105E201048 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.