B5203 crash in St. Helens on 9 January 2019 at 09:30 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note, a Volvo V70 and a Volvo lorry were involved in a crash on the B5203 in St. Helens at 09:30 on Wednesday 9 January 2019. A 45-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Note and the 46-year-old female driver of the Nissan Note were 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
- 9 Jan 2019
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Note and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50651, longitude -2.79401, in the WA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rainford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rainford, St. Helens, WA11 8DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051910067
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5203
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 9 September 1983
7 m awayRef 198305E301019
Slight
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 24 September 1989
8 m awayRef 198905E301441
Slight
Bus crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 14 March 1981
27 m awayRef 198105L100330
Serious
Car crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 21 January 1989
33 m awayRef 198905E300091
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 6 March 1987
33 m awayRef 198705E300301
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on the B5203 in St. Helens, 16 June 2001
33 m awayRef 2001050103750
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,435 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 3: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- Journey as part of work
- Engine capacity
- 7,698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- 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 2019051910067 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 2019.