A5009 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 25 July 1997 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Astravan
A Vauxhall Astravan hit a pedestrian on the A5009 in Stoke-on-Trent at 16:00 on Friday 25 July 1997. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1997
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astravan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05707, longitude -2.13707, in the ST2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997217415599
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5009
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 January 1999.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5009 in Stoke-on-Trent, 12 January 1999
14 m awayRef 1999219401098
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5009 in Stoke-on-Trent, 1 February 2008
22 m awayRef 2008218003475
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A5009 in Stoke-on-Trent, 19 September 2001
22 m awayRef 2001211116838
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A5009 in Stoke-on-Trent, 23 August 2017
23 m awayRef 2017210235513
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 July 2025
24 m awayRef 2025211623776
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A5009 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 August 1997
30 m awayRef 1997217417939
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astravan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astravan)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1997217415599 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 1997.