B5417 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 12 December 2015 at 22:23 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B5417 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 22:23 on Saturday 12 December 2015. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 22:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99643, longitude -1.93843, in the ST10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015210035673
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5417
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 21 January 1982
7 m awayRef 1982212400020
Slight
Minibus crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 24 July 1994
10 m awayRef 1994214114182
Slight
Car crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 10 July 1985
30 m awayRef 1985215400299
Serious
Car crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 20 September 1980
30 m awayRef 1980210400329
Slight
Leyland Freighter crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 4 July 2002
31 m awayRef 2002212213852
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 16 August 2013
55 m awayRef 2013213004276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015210035673 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 2015.