M6 crash in St. Helens on 27 November 2006 at 16:48 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the M6 in St. Helens at 16:48 on Monday 27 November 2006. A 53-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2006
- Monday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46904, longitude -2.63238, in the WA12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haydock, St. Helens, WA12 0HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200605DD13844
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 22 November 2005
28 m awayRef 200505DD03226
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 28 November 2025
31 m awayRef 2025052502203
Slight
Honda FR-V crash on the A580 in St. Helens, 19 April 2021
32 m awayRef 2021052100622
Slight
Scania crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 12 April 2024
37 m awayRef 2024051430709
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 16 December 2025
38 m awayRef 2025052502324
Slight
Car crash on the M6 in St. Helens, 16 June 1983
41 m awayRef 198305E200706
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200605DD13844 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.