Serious B5204 crash in St. Helens on 19 June 2023 at 17:20 involving a Dacia Duster
A Dacia Duster, a Ford Focus and a car were involved in a crash on the B5204 in St. Helens at 17:20 on Monday 19 June 2023. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were 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
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jun 2023
- Monday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Dacia Duster and 2 others
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42688, longitude -2.75794, in the WA9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023052301481
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5204
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2006.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 16 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200605DD04662
Slight
Jaguar XK Series crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 20 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200505DH00757
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 12 February 1988
19 m awayRef 198805E100220
Serious
Car crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 9 May 1982
32 m awayRef 198205E300529
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 6 May 2008
33 m awayRef 200805DD24702
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B5204 in St. Helens, 17 February 1990
35 m awayRef 199005E300327
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Dacia Duster
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Duster)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Duster)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023052301481 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 2023.