B5201 crash in St. Helens on 5 November 2021 at 13:05 involving an Audi A2
An Audi A2 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5201 in St. Helens at 13:05 on Friday 5 November 2021. The 32-year-old male cyclist 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
- 5 Nov 2021
- Friday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A2 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49163, longitude -2.74768, in the WA11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021052102455
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 11 October 1985
4 m awayRef 198505E301177
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 21 August 1991
4 m awayRef 199105E301288
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 24 January 2000
51 m awayRef 2000050018538
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 6 July 2019
145 m awayRef 2019051911989
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 15 July 2025
154 m awayRef 2025052501656
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B5201 in St. Helens, 12 February 1994
178 m awayRef 199405E300256
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- 32 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 32, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2021052102455 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 2021.