Unclassified road crash in St. Helens WA10 on 8 December 2012 at 15:30 involving a Chevrolet Matiz
A Chevrolet Matiz hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 15:30 on Saturday 8 December 2012. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chevrolet Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45126, longitude -2.73933, in the WA10 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Helens. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Helens Town Centre, St. Helens, WA10 2JZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205DD06322
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2006.
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 28 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200605DD08507
Serious
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 19 May 2011
At the same spotRef 201105DD03274
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 9 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198405E100788
Slight
Bus crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 27 March 1982
At the same spotRef 198205E100347
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 24 August 2006
At the same spotRef 200605DD11117
Slight
Bus crash on the A570 in St. Helens, 17 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198405E100198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chevrolet Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Chevrolet Matiz)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201205DD06322 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.