B5040 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 23 June 2004 at 17:10 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent at 17:10 on Wednesday 23 June 2004. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 2004
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Metro and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02064, longitude -2.1486, in the ST2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bucknall & Eaton Park, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 9DF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004214119138
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5040
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 February 1991.
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 11 February 1991
10 m awayRef 1991211307550
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent, 13 December 2008
10 m awayRef 2008218018579
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 11 May 1997
10 m awayRef 1997217309959
Slight
Mercedes Gle Class crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent, 10 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025211681121
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent, 19 May 2024
14 m awayRef 2024211444888
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent, 7 January 2003
14 m awayRef 2003213100661
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 2004214119138 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 2004.