C road crash in Stafford ST18 on 16 July 2003 at 23:15 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Stafford at 23:15 on Wednesday 16 July 2003. The 44-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2003
- Wednesday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80055, longitude -2.16268, in the ST18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seighford & Church Eaton, Stafford, ST18 9NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003213317596
- Council area
- Stafford
- 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
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2007.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on a C road in Stafford, 14 December 2007
22 m awayRef 2007217031212
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 27 May 1983
28 m awayRef 1983213700347
Serious
Honda C90E crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 10 October 1990
36 m awayRef 1990210708435
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 1 May 1987
54 m awayRef 1987217700273
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 2 December 1996
61 m awayRef 1996216625683
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 11 March 2008
61 m awayRef 2008218006190
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 2003213317596 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stafford road accident statistics for 2003.