Unclassified road crash in St. Helens WA8 on 25 December 2004 at 21:45 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord crashed on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 21:45 on Saturday 25 December 2004. The 24-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow and high winds on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40643, longitude -2.70591, in the WA8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200405DH01181
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 2012.
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Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A569 in St. Helens, 15 August 2012
22 m awayRef 201205DD04583
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Ford Transit crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 11 October 1991
70 m awayRef 199105E301563
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Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 26 January 1989
81 m awayRef 198905E300118
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Citroen Xsara crash on the A569 in St. Helens, 1 November 2017
90 m awayRef 2017051702668
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Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 19 December 1979
114 m awayRef 197905L101450
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Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 28 August 1987
114 m awayRef 198705E101140
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200405DH01181 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 2004.