Unclassified road crash in Stafford ST17 on 18 July 2012 at 21:00 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stafford at 21:00 on Wednesday 18 July 2012. A 28-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2012
- Wednesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77988, longitude -2.07395, in the ST17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stafford.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212003701
- Council area
- Stafford
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2002.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 3 October 2002
42 m awayRef 2002212320013
Serious
Rover 45 crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 28 March 2011
71 m awayRef 2011211001798
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A34 in Stafford, 20 May 1993
153 m awayRef 1993213715028
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A34 in Stafford, 29 February 1996
156 m awayRef 1996216604606
Serious
Nissan Patrol crash on the A34 in Stafford, 17 December 1991
158 m awayRef 1991211712119
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A34 in Stafford, 29 November 1992
158 m awayRef 1992212714018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 2012212003701 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stafford road accident statistics for 2012.