Unclassified road crash in Cannock Chase WS11 on 23 February 2012 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase at 08:00 on Thursday 23 February 2012. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68433, longitude -2.03606, in the WS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cannock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cannock Longford & Bridgtown, Cannock Chase, WS11 1QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212001127
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 1996.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 10 December 1996
At the same spotRef 1996216925494
Slight
Ford Puma crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 19 November 2006
At the same spotRef 2006216030991
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 18 December 1981
At the same spotRef 1981211200884
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 1 February 1991
10 m awayRef 1991211208756
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 19 March 1996
14 m awayRef 1996216906145
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 12 April 2009
14 m awayRef 2009219003103
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2012212001127 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 2012.