A52 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 30 April 2003 at 16:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A52 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 16:05 on Wednesday 30 April 2003. A 34-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 106, a 34-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and the 24-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 106 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Apr 2003
- Wednesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02037, longitude -1.99758, in the ST10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003213209574
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 52
- 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
- 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 3 August 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A52 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 3 August 1999
10 m awayRef 1999219218030
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A52 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 28 October 2000
10 m awayRef 2000210219169
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A52 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 24 December 2001
10 m awayRef 20012112X0166
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the A52 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 2 March 2010
30 m awayRef 2010210001654
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A52 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 9 November 2003
32 m awayRef 2003213231338
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A52 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 21 June 2025
46 m awayRef 2025211608721
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
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 2003213209574 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 2003.