C road crash in Cannock Chase ST19 on 20 September 1994 at 00:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Cannock Chase at 00:30 on Tuesday 20 September 1994. The 31-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 1994
- Tuesday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72868, longitude -2.03979, in the ST19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994214917420
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 27 June 1987
22 m awayRef 1987217200350
Slight
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 26 May 1993
45 m awayRef 1993213214465
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 6 August 1986
164 m awayRef 1986216200518
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 13 June 1984
186 m awayRef 1984214200354
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 8 September 2003
186 m awayRef 2003213323541
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, 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 1994214917420 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 1994.