B5026 crash in Stafford on 12 January 2014 at 21:45 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz crashed on the B5026 in Stafford at 21:45 on Sunday 12 January 2014. The 30-year-old female driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2014
- Sunday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87795, longitude -2.30468, in the ST21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014214000428
- Council area
- Stafford
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5026
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5026 in Stafford, 2 June 1981
9 m awayRef 1981211800307
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the B5026 in Stafford, 15 December 1993
33 m awayRef 1993213716343
Slight
Car crash on the B5026 in Stafford, 11 September 1981
69 m awayRef 1981211800589
Fatal
Van crash on the B5026 in Stafford, 25 June 1982
149 m awayRef 1982212700489
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5026 in Stafford, 27 January 1999
149 m awayRef 1999219602815
Slight
Car crash on the B5026 in Stafford, 8 June 2007
231 m awayRef 2007217014565
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
- 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 2014214000428 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 2014.