A511 crash in East Staffordshire on 18 December 2012 at 17:45 involving a Fiat Bravo
A Fiat Bravo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A511 in East Staffordshire at 17:45 on Tuesday 18 December 2012. The 65-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa 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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Bravo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.82188, longitude -1.64174, in the DE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burton upon Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burton & Eton, East Staffordshire, DE14 2SP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212006791
- Council area
- East Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 511
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2013.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A511 in East Staffordshire, 23 August 2013
3 m awayRef 2013213005063
Serious
Mazda 6 crash on the A511 in East Staffordshire, 9 December 2025
5 m awayRef 2025211680452
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A511 in East Staffordshire, 22 August 2015
6 m awayRef 2015210028235
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in East Staffordshire, 14 July 1984
10 m awayRef 1984214500520
Slight
Volvo crash on the A511 in East Staffordshire, 8 October 2010
10 m awayRef 2010210006190
Slight
Van crash on the A50 in East Staffordshire, 2 March 1981
10 m awayRef 1981211100072
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Bravo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2012212006791 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Staffordshire road accident statistics for 2012.