Unclassified road crash in St. Helens WN4 on 13 September 2018 at 07:45 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 07:45 on Thursday 13 September 2018. The 56-year-old male driver of the Toyota Corolla 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
- 13 Sep 2018
- Thursday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49654, longitude -2.68061, in the WN4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billinge & Seneley Green, St. Helens, WN4 0QX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018051802129
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2021.
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 5 October 2021
1 m awayRef 2021052102173
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5207 in St. Helens, 7 April 2016
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Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B5207 in St. Helens, 4 August 2014
4 m awayRef 201405DD04005
Serious
Hyundai ix35 crash on the A571 in St. Helens, 25 July 2024
6 m awayRef 2024052401616
Slight
Renault Koleos crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 2 December 2024
7 m awayRef 2024052402666
Fatal
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Wigan, 7 March 2003
7 m awayRef 200306L014486
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2018051802129 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 2018.