A53 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 23 October 1999 at 01:48 involving a Citroen C15
A Citroen C15 crashed on the A53 in Stoke-on-Trent at 01:48 on Saturday 23 October 1999. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 1999
- Saturday, 01:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C15
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02173, longitude -2.1984, in the ST1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999219127278
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 53
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 1993.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A53 in Stoke-on-Trent, 15 October 1993
At the same spotRef 1993213311683
Fatal
Peugeot 206 crash on the A53 in Stoke-on-Trent, 20 March 2002
10 m awayRef 2002212106154
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 28 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002212124599
Slight
Datsun Stanza crash on the A53 in Stoke-on-Trent, 29 December 1993
14 m awayRef 1993213312418
Serious
Car crash on the A53 in Stoke-on-Trent, 6 May 2000
14 m awayRef 2000210108443
Slight
MAN crash on the A53 in Stoke-on-Trent, 4 September 1997
20 m awayRef 1997217318745
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C15
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C15)
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 1999219127278 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 1999.