Serious B5205 crash in St. Helens on 14 August 2013 at 17:15 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic, a Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the B5205 in St. Helens at 17:15 on Wednesday 14 August 2013. The 64-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Aug 2013
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda Civic and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49388, longitude -2.76212, in the WA11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rainford, St. Helens, WA11 8LZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305DD03895
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 1997.
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 12 June 1997
4 m awayRef 1997050122576
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 14 July 1995
4 m awayRef 1995050163258
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 2 July 1999
10 m awayRef 1999050136126
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 8 May 1999
10 m awayRef 1999050096003
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 7 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200605DD14349
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 23 December 1998
10 m awayRef 1998050261914
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,668 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,926 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201305DD03895 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.