A531 crash in Stafford on 22 April 1991 at 18:10 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A531 in Stafford at 18:10 on Monday 22 April 1991. The 69-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion and the 75-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 1991
- Monday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03483, longitude -2.36859, in the CW3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991211710102
- Council area
- Stafford
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 531
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 8 June 2013
47 m awayRef 2013213002984
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 18 May 1984
61 m awayRef 1984214700310
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1 December 2017
80 m awayRef 2017210259609
Slight
Audi S4 crash on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 23 August 2024
92 m awayRef 2024211483632
Slight
Car crash on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 14 May 1982
100 m awayRef 1982212700363
Slight
Lada Riva crash on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 28 November 1992
112 m awayRef 1992212609476
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 1991211710102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stafford road accident statistics for 1991.