A599 crash in St. Helens on 7 March 2013 at 19:25 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A599 in St. Helens at 19:25 on Thursday 7 March 2013. The 37-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2013
- Thursday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46915, longitude -2.65633, 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
- 201305DD01766
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 4 December 2023
4 m awayRef 2023052302908
Slight
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 11 December 2025
10 m awayRef 2025052502286
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 5 October 2007
11 m awayRef 200705DD20404
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 16 April 2009
12 m awayRef 200905DD32173
Serious
Keeway TX 125 crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 6 March 2017
12 m awayRef 2017051700575
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 5 January 2016
15 m awayRef 2016051600036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 201305DD01766 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 2013.