Serious A599 crash in St. Helens on 19 March 2019 at 19:29 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A599 in St. Helens at 19:29 on Tuesday 19 March 2019. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Mar 2019
- Tuesday, 19:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46862, longitude -2.65816, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051910799
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 599
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2023.
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 26 May 2023
8 m awayRef 2023052301216
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 9 June 2024
12 m awayRef 2024052401262
Slight
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 10 August 1982
14 m awayRef 198205E200806
Serious
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 29 January 2005
23 m awayRef 200505DH00071
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 7 July 2004
23 m awayRef 200405DH00608
Serious
Car crash on the A599 in St. Helens, 5 August 1979
27 m awayRef 197905L200819
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019051910799 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.