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A5005 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 18 December 1987 at 18:35 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A5005 in Stoke-on-Trent at 18:35 on Friday 18 December 1987. A 7-year-old female pedestrian 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
18 Dec 1987
Friday, 18:35
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98005, longitude -2.12864, in the ST3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987217600537
Council area
Stoke-on-Trent
Police force
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5005
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Stop sign
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Zebra crossing

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 serious injury crash on 27 February 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    52 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1987217600537 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 1987.