C road crash in South Staffordshire WV9 on 1 May 2005 at 23:50 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on a C road in South Staffordshire at 23:50 on Sunday 1 May 2005. The 17-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2005
- Sunday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.66542, longitude -2.17652, in the WV9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005215314737
- Council area
- South Staffordshire
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 29 November 1979
22 m awayRef 1979219200798
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 27 July 1984
28 m awayRef 1984214200459
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 15 July 1992
36 m awayRef 1992212212366
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 18 August 2008
36 m awayRef 2008218014342
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 30 August 1999
144 m awayRef 1999219319539
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 6 October 1989
148 m awayRef 1989219205012
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2005215314737 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Staffordshire road accident statistics for 2005.