B5201 crash in St. Helens on 11 April 2017 at 01:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B5201 in St. Helens at 01:00 on Tuesday 11 April 2017. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 2017
- Tuesday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48247, longitude -2.75412, in the WA11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017051700930
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2009.
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 7 July 2009
3 m awayRef 200905DD33416
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 3 April 2025
7 m awayRef 2025052500675
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 10 November 2011
13 m awayRef 201105DD06333
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 21 September 2003
13 m awayRef 200305DH00959
Slight
MAN crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 21 July 2016
15 m awayRef 2016051602378
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 3 August 2025
18 m awayRef 2025052501478
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2017051700930 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 2017.