B5234 crash in East Staffordshire on 26 February 1994 at 19:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B5234 in East Staffordshire at 19:00 on Saturday 26 February 1994. A 38-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 1994
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.81516, longitude -1.85381, in the WS15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994214719035
- Council area
- East Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5234
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 1991.
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Ford Escort crash on the B5234 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 31 August 1991
At the same spotRef 1991211406270
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 10 February 1998
10 m awayRef 1998218704145
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 19 June 2021
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Skoda Favorit crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 21 June 1994
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Talbot Express crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 27 October 1994
14 m awayRef 1994214720567
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 14 September 2008
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1994214719035 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Staffordshire road accident statistics for 1994.