B5234 crash in East Staffordshire on 10 February 1998 at 08:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B5234 in East Staffordshire at 08:10 on Tuesday 10 February 1998. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Feb 1998
- Tuesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.81516, longitude -1.85396, 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
- 1998218704145
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2021.
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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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Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 14 September 2008
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Ford Fiesta crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 26 February 1994
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Ford Escort crash on the B5234 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 31 August 1991
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Talbot Express crash on the B5234 in East Staffordshire, 27 October 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1998218704145 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 1998.