B5201 crash in St. Helens on 6 October 2013 at 13:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B5201 in St. Helens at 13:00 on Sunday 6 October 2013. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2013
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45762, longitude -2.77175, in the WA10 postcode district and within the built-up area of St Helens. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eccleston, St. Helens, WA10 4QQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201305DD04608
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5201
- 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2021.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 24 June 2021
4 m awayRef 2021052101212
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 11 October 2002
5 m awayRef 200205DH00039
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 16 June 2022
34 m awayRef 2022052201450
Slight
Volvo V60 crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 1 July 2023
48 m awayRef 2023052301575
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 28 June 1997
70 m awayRef 1997050133419
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 13 May 2024
98 m awayRef 2024052401146
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201305DD04608 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.