B5413 crash in St. Helens on 2 May 2012 at 17:15 involving a MAN bus
A MAN bus and a car were involved in a crash on the B5413 in St. Helens at 17:15 on Wednesday 2 May 2012. A 76-year-old male passenger in the MAN bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2012
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- MAN and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42467, longitude -2.76535, in the L35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prescot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rainhill, St. Helens, L35 4LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205DD03090
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5413
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5204
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2003.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B5413 in St. Helens, 1 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200305DH00437
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the B5413 in St. Helens, 1 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000050102235
Slight
Car crash on the B5413 in St. Helens, 21 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198905E300099
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A5413 in St. Helens, 24 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199305E302052
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5413 in St. Helens, 11 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200705DD20459
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B5413 in St. Helens, 26 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200405DH01201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MAN
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,871 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 76, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MAN)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 201205DD03090 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 2012.