Unclassified road crash in South Staffordshire WV11 on 19 April 2014 at 10:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire at 10:00 on Saturday 19 April 2014. The 48-year-old male driver 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
- 19 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62264, longitude -2.05259, in the WV11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Essington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Essington, South Staffordshire, WV11 2DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014214002175
- Council area
- South Staffordshire
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 April 1992.
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 6 April 1992
25 m awayRef 1992212211725
Slight
Colt Sigma crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 8 March 1991
33 m awayRef 1991211208937
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 22 October 1997
37 m awayRef 1997217922940
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 28 August 2003
37 m awayRef 2003213322109
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 25 May 1979
37 m awayRef 1979219200366
Slight
Land Rover 110 crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 28 June 1995
37 m awayRef 1995215919051
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 2014214002175 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Staffordshire road accident statistics for 2014.