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Serious A523 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 22 January 1979 at 17:45 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A523 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 17:45 on Monday 22 January 1979. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
22 Jan 1979
Monday, 17:45
Vehicles
1
Bus or coach
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10659, longitude -2.0249, in the ST13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leek.

Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979219400022
Council area
Staffordshire Moorlands
Police force
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
523
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 July 2025.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bus or coach

    Bus or coach (17 or more seats)

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1979219400022 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 1979.