A34 crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme on 7 March 2002 at 15:00 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series and a Daewoo Nexia were involved in a crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 15:00 on Thursday 7 March 2002. The 42-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Nexia and a 17-year-old male passenger in the Daewoo Nexia were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 2002
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar XJ Series and Daewoo Nexia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04834, longitude -2.24431, in the ST5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crackley & Red Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 7DA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002212205134
- Council area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2002.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 11 March 2002
At the same spotRef 2002212205977
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 21 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025211672245
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 27 May 2016
9 m awayRef 2016210071768
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 5 May 1980
10 m awayRef 1980210700172
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 13 October 1999
10 m awayRef 1999219222942
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 5 March 2009
14 m awayRef 2009219001984
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 3,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Nexia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Nexia)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Nexia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2002212205134 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 2002.