A5 crash in Cannock Chase on 23 June 1985 at 02:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5 in Cannock Chase at 02:15 on Sunday 23 June 1985. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 1985
- Sunday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67492, longitude -2.0319, in the WS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cannock.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985215200348
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2010.
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A5 in Cannock Chase, 13 January 2010
At the same spotRef 2010210000293
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A5 in Cannock Chase, 11 January 2000
At the same spotRef 2000210300831
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A5 in Cannock Chase, 5 December 2002
At the same spotRef 2002212325351
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 1 November 2020
At the same spotRef 2020211026719
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A5 in Cannock Chase, 5 April 2021
2 m awayRef 2021211084427
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5 in Cannock Chase, 3 February 2014
5 m awayRef 2014214000892
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 1985215200348 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 1985.