Unclassified road crash in St. Helens L34 on 25 February 2019 at 14:30 involving a BMW X1
A BMW X1 and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 14:30 on Monday 25 February 2019. The 30-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Feb 2019
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X1 and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.43116, longitude -2.78142, in the L34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Prescot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eccleston, St. Helens, L34 2TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051910555
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 February 2024.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 2 February 2024
17 m awayRef 2024052400319
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 4 October 2010
21 m awayRef 201005DD05850
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 27 April 2003
72 m awayRef 200305CH00399
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 26 April 2000
109 m awayRef 2000050084719
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 1 August 2006
118 m awayRef 200605DD08965
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 27 June 2001
123 m awayRef 2001050141358
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019051910555 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.