A52 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 5 October 1986 at 22:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A52 in Stoke-on-Trent at 22:35 on Sunday 5 October 1986. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1986
- Sunday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00523, longitude -2.18713, in the ST4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986216600393
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2001.
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A52 in Stoke-on-Trent, 6 March 2001
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Slight
Bus crash on the A52 in Stoke-on-Trent, 23 January 1989
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the A52 in Stoke-on-Trent, 9 May 2012
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Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 July 1988
14 m awayRef 1988218601172
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Slight
Car crash on the A52 in Stoke-on-Trent, 29 June 1981
20 m awayRef 1981211600241
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 1986216600393 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 1986.