C road crash in Cannock Chase WS12 on 4 April 2003 at 17:50 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Cannock Chase at 17:50 on Friday 4 April 2003. The 24-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2003
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.74277, longitude -2.0093, in the WS12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003213307461
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Dislodged vehicle load in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 July 2025.
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 4 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025211611828
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 15 May 2012
10 m awayRef 2012212002566
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 9 October 1981
10 m awayRef 1981211200709
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 26 July 2008
10 m awayRef 2008218013720
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 21 May 1989
22 m awayRef 1989219204104
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 23 October 2009
28 m awayRef 2009219008188
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2003213307461 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 2003.