A53 crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme on 29 September 2014 at 08:55 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 hit a pedestrian on the A53 in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 08:55 on Monday 29 September 2014. A 16-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 29 Sep 2014
- Monday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92249, longitude -2.3833, in the TF9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Loggerheads.
Map of where the crash happened in Newcastle-under-Lyme
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014214005063
- Council area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 53
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A53 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 19 November 1980
34 m awayRef 1980210700506
Slight
Scania crash on the A53 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 9 July 2002
34 m awayRef 2002212215152
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A53 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 6 March 2006
52 m awayRef 2006216207251
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A53 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 10 August 1995
52 m awayRef 1995215511027
Slight
Car crash on the A53 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 11 October 1998
60 m awayRef 1998218522568
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A53 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 27 September 1997
74 m awayRef 1997217520624
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2014214005063 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle-under-Lyme road accident statistics for 2014.