Serious B5203 crash in St. Helens on 22 December 2012 at 04:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B5203 in St. Helens at 04:45 on Saturday 22 December 2012. A 23-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and a 24-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 04:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49082, longitude -2.79368, in the WA11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201205DD06627
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5203
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 9 October 1981
10 m awayRef 198105E302096
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 27 October 2001
36 m awayRef 2001050189847
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 5 November 1989
60 m awayRef 198905E301716
Slight
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 13 January 1989
61 m awayRef 198905E300055
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 4 January 1994
70 m awayRef 199405E300018
Slight
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 26 January 1980
103 m awayRef 198005L100113
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201205DD06627 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.