A5 crash in Tamworth on 18 December 2014 at 23:36 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on the A5 in Tamworth at 23:36 on Thursday 18 December 2014. The 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 23:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62291, longitude -1.69024, in the B77 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belgrave, Tamworth, B77 1DJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tamworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014214006678
- Council area
- Tamworth
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 April 2016.
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A5 in Tamworth, 14 April 2016
10 m awayRef 2016210061399
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5 in Tamworth, 21 May 1997
19 m awayRef 1997217810786
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A5 in Tamworth, 21 August 1997
19 m awayRef 1997217817807
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A51 in Tamworth, 13 May 1997
23 m awayRef 1997217810469
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A5 in Tamworth, 28 March 2019
37 m awayRef 2019210400137
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A51 in Tamworth, 6 May 2009
39 m awayRef 2009219003749
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2014214006678 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tamworth road accident statistics for 2014.