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Serious A5035 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 17 March 1979 at 14:30 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent at 14:30 on Saturday 17 March 1979. A 59-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
17 Mar 1979
Saturday, 14:30
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97571, longitude -2.1465, in the ST3 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Stoke-on-Trent

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979219600094
Council area
Stoke-on-Trent
Police force
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5035
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 September 1979.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    29 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    66 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 1979219600094 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stoke-on-Trent road accident statistics for 1979.