C road crash in Cannock Chase WS15 on 16 November 2012 at 20:15 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis crashed on a C road in Cannock Chase at 20:15 on Friday 16 November 2012. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 2012
- Friday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72945, longitude -1.94222, in the WS15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212006289
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 8 September 1981
At the same spotRef 1981211200630
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 18 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988218202230
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 5 April 2024
At the same spotRef 2024211428462
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 14 November 2002
At the same spotRef 2002212323733
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 22 February 2005
At the same spotRef 2005215307249
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 27 June 2010
At the same spotRef 2010210004035
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
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 2012212006289 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.