B5030 crash in East Staffordshire on 5 September 1998 at 09:55 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton crashed on the B5030 in East Staffordshire at 09:55 on Saturday 5 September 1998. The 29-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
- 5 Sep 1998
- Saturday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96427, longitude -1.83336, in the ST14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998218719339
- Council area
- East Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5030
- 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 5 November 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5030 in East Staffordshire, 5 November 2005
10 m awayRef 2005215435225
Slight
Car crash on the B5030 in East Staffordshire, 19 December 2004
22 m awayRef 2004214438533
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B5030 in East Staffordshire, 4 July 1998
130 m awayRef 1998218114687
Slight
Car crash on the B5030 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 11 June 1988
149 m awayRef 1988218400710
Slight
Ducati crash on the B5030 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 8 June 1994
180 m awayRef 1994214113835
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5030 in East Staffordshire, 17 January 2020
186 m awayRef 2020210942877
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)
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 1998218719339 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.