A599 crash in St. Helens on 11 September 2012 at 23:20 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on the A599 in St. Helens at 23:20 on Tuesday 11 September 2012. The 19-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2012
- Tuesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46745, longitude -2.66158, in the WA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haydock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haydock, St. Helens, WA11 0PY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205DD04968
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 599
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 October 2001.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 2 October 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050174708
Slight
Bus crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 14 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198805E200930
Slight
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 4 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198905E200487
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 25 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201005DD05504
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 20 June 2001
At the same spotRef 2001050111730
Serious
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 19 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198805E201248
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 201205DD04968 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.