B5209 crash in St. Helens on 4 January 2006 at 07:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B5209 in St. Helens at 07:30 on Wednesday 4 January 2006. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 2006
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45999, longitude -2.64384, in the WA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newton-le-Willows.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200605DD04342
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5209
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 26 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199005E201302
Slight
Car crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 13 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200605DD09011
Serious
Car crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 12 June 1981
14 m awayRef 198105L200623
Serious
Car crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 16 December 1980
32 m awayRef 198005L201485
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 17 November 2015
33 m awayRef 2015051502927
Slight
Hyosung GT 125 crash on the B5209 in St. Helens, 3 October 2018
33 m awayRef 2018051802350
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200605DD04342 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 2006.