B5039 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 8 May 2008 at 08:45 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the B5039 in Stoke-on-Trent at 08:45 on Thursday 8 May 2008. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2008
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98964, longitude -2.13717, 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 Longton & Meir Hay South, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 1FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008218010070
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5039
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2023.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B5039 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 August 2023
8 m awayRef 2023211345660
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 29 July 1985
10 m awayRef 1985215600257
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 3 August 1985
10 m awayRef 1985215600270
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 November 1987
10 m awayRef 1987217600502
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5039 in Stoke-on-Trent, 8 March 2012
20 m awayRef 2012212001358
Slight
Hyundai Atoz crash on the B5039 in Stoke-on-Trent, 5 July 2000
20 m awayRef 2000210112849
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 2008218010070 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 2008.