Unclassified road crash in St. Helens WA11 on 17 May 2017 at 17:51 involving a Ford Fiesta
A bicycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 17:51 on Wednesday 17 May 2017. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2017
- Wednesday, 17:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47113, longitude -2.66125, 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
- 2017051701200
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 March 2015.
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 26 March 2015
21 m awayRef 2015051500843
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 5 October 2000
55 m awayRef 2000050176846
Slight
Car crash on a C road in St. Helens, 21 October 2004
84 m awayRef 200405DH00961
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on a C road in St. Helens, 2 December 2003
84 m awayRef 200305DH01214
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 14 May 1992
86 m awayRef 199205E200790
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in St. Helens, 26 March 2002
88 m awayRef 2002050058419
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017051701200 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.