Serious unclassified road crash in Stafford ST21 on 13 May 1979 at 16:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stafford at 16:00 on Sunday 13 May 1979. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 May 1979
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.85775, longitude -2.26476, in the ST21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979219800203
- Council area
- Stafford
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 136 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2001.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on a C road in Stafford, 19 December 2001
136 m awayRef 2001211323402
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 9 June 2025
137 m awayRef 2025211600589
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on a C road in Stafford, 23 July 2001
142 m awayRef 2001211313345
Fatal
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 21 June 2003
216 m awayRef 2003213314563
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 5 June 1990
255 m awayRef 1990210707433
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Stafford, 20 October 2008
306 m awayRef 2008218016543
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 1979219800203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stafford road accident statistics for 1979.