A5272 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 11 March 2012 at 11:48 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara hit a pedestrian on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent at 11:48 on Sunday 11 March 2012. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 2012
- Sunday, 11:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01086, longitude -2.13083, in the ST2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bentilee, Ubberley & Townsend, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 0EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stoke-on-Trent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212001444
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5272
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 11 October 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 11 October 1988
At the same spotRef 1988218301980
Serious
Car crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 October 1988
At the same spotRef 1988218302103
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 29 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990210307024
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent, 27 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025211675680
Slight
Triumph Dolomite crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 13 November 1991
10 m awayRef 1991211309264
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 8 November 2000
10 m awayRef 2000210119748
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012212001444 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 2012.