B5038 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 24 July 2005 at 18:20 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B5038 in Stoke-on-Trent at 18:20 on Sunday 24 July 2005. The male driver of the car and the 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2005
- Sunday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97841, longitude -2.13073, in the ST3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lightwood North & Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4RH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005215124643
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5038
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2006.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 4 May 2006
At the same spotRef 2006216113095
Slight
Car crash on the B5038 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 April 2006
At the same spotRef 2006216112117
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 13 August 2025
7 m awayRef 2025211630212
Slight
Car crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 22 February 1980
10 m awayRef 1980210600062
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B5038 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 August 2004
10 m awayRef 2004214125868
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B5038 in Stoke-on-Trent, 12 November 2012
10 m awayRef 2012212006089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2005215124643 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 2005.