B5205 crash in St. Helens on 20 August 2012 at 18:48 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5205 in St. Helens at 18:48 on Monday 20 August 2012. The 19-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 2012
- Monday, 18:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49639, longitude -2.73876, in the WA11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205DD04654
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 28 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200905DD02528
Slight
Car crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 1 June 1997
At the same spotRef 1997050113002
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in St. Helens, 19 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200405DH01060
Slight
Car crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 17 June 1999
14 m awayRef 1999050125308
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 13 December 1991
64 m awayRef 199105E301982
Fatal
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 30 April 2000
64 m awayRef 2000050079863
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 19, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201205DD04654 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.