Unclassified road crash in Stoke-on-Trent ST2 on 30 March 2012 at 22:15 involving a taxi
A taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent at 22:15 on Friday 30 March 2012. A 46-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2012
- Friday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01777, longitude -2.13622, 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
- 2012212001764
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 13 April 1979
At the same spotRef 1979219300142
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 19 August 1983
14 m awayRef 1983213300424
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 13 January 1994
81 m awayRef 1994214312570
Slight
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 22 October 1991
92 m awayRef 1991211309042
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 18 June 2000
92 m awayRef 2000210111948
Slight
MG ZR crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 6 February 2010
99 m awayRef 2010210000936
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 2012212001764 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.