Serious B5419 crash in St. Helens on 30 October 2011 at 17:10 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on the B5419 in St. Helens at 17:10 on Sunday 30 October 2011. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Oct 2011
- Sunday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41088, longitude -2.72825, in the WA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Helens. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bold & Lea Green, St. Helens, WA9 4BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201105DD06108
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5419
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5419 in St. Helens, 3 September 1999
At the same spotRef 1999050179588
Slight
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 11 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198405E100925
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the B5419 in St. Helens, 30 March 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050056720
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A568 in St. Helens, 23 October 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050217117
Serious
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 24 December 1979
At the same spotRef 197905L101495
Serious
Car crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 13 August 1979
10 m awayRef 197905L100853
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201105DD06108 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 2011.