A50 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 14 December 2012 at 01:45 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent at 01:45 on Friday 14 December 2012. A 34-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2012
- Friday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98174, longitude -2.11957, in the ST3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lightwood North & Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4RH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212006769
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 50
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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2007.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 5 November 2007
20 m awayRef 2007217028043
Slight
Foden crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 16 December 2005
22 m awayRef 20052151X0041
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 November 1998
22 m awayRef 1998218226051
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 29 November 2025
27 m awayRef 2025211675619
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 19 April 2012
30 m awayRef 2012212002073
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 8 January 2012
30 m awayRef 2012212000281
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2012212006769 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.