B5205 crash in St. Helens on 15 November 2019 at 16:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B5205 in St. Helens at 16:00 on Friday 15 November 2019. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2019
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50251, longitude -2.78385, 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
- 2019051912941
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5205
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 July 1999.
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 19 July 1999
10 m awayRef 1999050147436
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 19 July 1999
10 m awayRef 1999050151543
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 20 November 1998
10 m awayRef 1998050237595
Slight
Car crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 21 March 1981
10 m awayRef 198105L100320
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 5 May 2022
17 m awayRef 2022052201095
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the B5205 in St. Helens, 12 August 2025
22 m awayRef 2025052501524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2019051912941 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.