A522 crash in East Staffordshire on 21 March 2005 at 00:35 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on the A522 in East Staffordshire at 00:35 on Monday 21 March 2005. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2005
- Monday, 00:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92991, longitude -1.92231, in the ST14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005215410345
- Council area
- East Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 522
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A522 in East Staffordshire, 1 February 2000
22 m awayRef 2000210402459
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in East Staffordshire, 15 July 1983
36 m awayRef 1983213400317
Serious
Lorry crash on the A50 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 31 October 1982
50 m awayRef 1982212400496
Serious
Honda CB crash on the A522 in East Staffordshire, 21 August 2023
65 m awayRef 2023211344298
Serious
Car crash on the A50 in East Staffordshire, 17 February 1984
78 m awayRef 1984214400053
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A522 in East Staffordshire, 12 January 2008
222 m awayRef 2008218001459
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 2005215410345 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Staffordshire road accident statistics for 2005.