Serious A460 crash in Cannock Chase on 1 September 1984 at 13:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A460 in Cannock Chase at 13:15 on Saturday 1 September 1984. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Sep 1984
- Saturday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74081, longitude -1.9576, in the WS15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984214200534
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 460
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2024.
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 17 February 2024
9 m awayRef 2024211433202
Slight
Car crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 12 December 1987
10 m awayRef 1987217200754
Slight
Car crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 26 January 1988
14 m awayRef 1988218200963
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 5 September 1998
14 m awayRef 1998218919899
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 3 December 1992
20 m awayRef 1992212213329
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 10 April 2001
28 m awayRef 2001211306740
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1984214200534 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 1984.