Unclassified road crash in St. Helens WA12 on 10 December 2012 at 14:26 involving a Volvo S60
A Volvo S60, a Vauxhall Astra and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 14:26 on Monday 10 December 2012. The 27-year-old male driver of the Volvo S60 and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Volvo S60 were 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
- 10 Dec 2012
- Monday, 14:26
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volvo S60 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45688, longitude -2.62015, in the WA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newton-le-Willows. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newton-le-Willows East, St. Helens, WA12 0DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205DD06338
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2016.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 12 October 2016
19 m awayRef 2016051603377
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 5 November 1982
28 m awayRef 198205E201288
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 29 September 1980
36 m awayRef 198005L201098
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in St. Helens, 12 August 1979
50 m awayRef 197905L200846
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 7 July 1999
54 m awayRef 1999050138135
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A49 in St. Helens, 2 December 1997
54 m awayRef 1997050244577
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S60)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S60)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 201205DD06338 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.