A569 crash in St. Helens on 18 September 2000 at 19:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A569 in St. Helens at 19:15 on Monday 18 September 2000. The 12-year-old male cyclist 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
- 18 Sep 2000
- Monday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41862, longitude -2.71213, 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
- 2000050166552
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 569
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 27 September 1996
10 m awayRef 1996050218384
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 13 September 1999
20 m awayRef 1999050186565
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 26 November 1979
22 m awayRef 197905L101344
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 9 February 1987
22 m awayRef 198705E100179
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A569 in St. Helens, 6 October 2000
22 m awayRef 2000050179193
Serious
Taxi crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 25 October 1989
22 m awayRef 198905E101656
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 1 (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 2000050166552 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 2000.