C road crash in Cannock Chase WS8 on 17 December 1998 at 22:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Cannock Chase at 22:35 on Thursday 17 December 1998. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 17 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6644, longitude -1.95693, in the WS8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998218928441
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 20 May 2003
10 m awayRef 2003213311248
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 10 September 2012
32 m awayRef 2012212004789
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 1 June 2000
58 m awayRef 2000210310989
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 16 September 1985
78 m awayRef 1985215200543
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 29 December 1982
86 m awayRef 1982212200850
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 29 June 2023
86 m awayRef 2023211330280
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1998218928441 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 1998.