A34 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 20 April 1990 at 22:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A34 in Stoke-on-Trent at 22:00 on Friday 20 April 1990. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 1990
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96207, longitude -2.19439, in the ST4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990210604195
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a fatal crash on 23 November 2023.
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A34 in Stoke-on-Trent, 23 November 2023
19 m awayRef 2023211378516
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 10 December 1993
22 m awayRef 1993213612091
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A34 in Stoke-on-Trent, 31 October 2013
29 m awayRef 2013213005781
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A34 in Stoke-on-Trent, 10 September 1996
42 m awayRef 1996216218589
Fatal
Car crash on the A34 in Stoke-on-Trent, 20 November 1988
51 m awayRef 1988218601697
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A34 in Stafford, 18 August 2004
61 m awayRef 2004214325152
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1990210604195 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 1990.