Unclassified road crash in South Staffordshire ST19 on 26 April 1987 at 17:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire at 17:30 on Sunday 26 April 1987. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 1987
- Sunday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67721, longitude -2.18084, in the ST19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987217200216
- Council area
- South Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 28 July 1989
41 m awayRef 1989219204557
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 16 November 1987
58 m awayRef 1987217200697
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 28 June 1990
67 m awayRef 1990210207014
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 1 December 1985
94 m awayRef 1985215200742
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 18 December 1987
98 m awayRef 1987217200797
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 27 November 2024
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1987217200216 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Staffordshire road accident statistics for 1987.