Unclassified road crash in St. Helens WN5 on 24 April 2022 at 13:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Tiguan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 13:00 on Sunday 24 April 2022. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2022
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50078, longitude -2.70584, in the WN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Billinge.
Map of where the crash happened in St. Helens
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022052201012
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 25 June 2013.
Serious
Piaggio NRG crash on the A571 in St. Helens, 25 June 2013
1 m awayRef 201305DD03336
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 18 January 2025
2 m awayRef 2025052500099
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A571 in St. Helens, 4 February 2021
5 m awayRef 2021051020869
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A571 in St. Helens, 26 November 1996
6 m awayRef 1996050265616
Slight
Car crash on the A571 in St. Helens, 5 July 1995
6 m awayRef 1995050156412
Slight
Car crash on the A571 in St. Helens, 4 November 1982
6 m awayRef 198205E201271
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Tiguan
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2022052201012 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 2022.