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A531 crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme on 15 April 1997 at 09:10 involving a Volvo 240

A Volvo 240 crashed on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 09:10 on Tuesday 15 April 1997. The 49-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
15 Apr 1997
Tuesday, 09:10
Vehicles
1
Volvo 240
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01443, longitude -2.33697, in the CW3 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997217508444
Council area
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Police force
Staffordshire
Highway authority
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
531
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 240

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    49 years
    Engine capacity
    2,315 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 240)

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 1997217508444 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle-under-Lyme road accident statistics for 1997.