B5044 crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme on 29 March 2015 at 10:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B5044 in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 10:35 on Sunday 29 March 2015. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 2015
- Sunday, 10:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01394, longitude -2.28894, in the ST5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015215001689
- Council area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5044
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the B5044 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 21 May 1985
8 m awayRef 1985215700345
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5044 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 21 September 1980
8 m awayRef 1980210700389
Slight
Bus crash on the B5044 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 9 September 1985
47 m awayRef 1985215700652
Slight
Car crash on the B5044 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 11 March 1987
75 m awayRef 1987217700149
Slight
MG Metro crash on the B5044 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 11 May 1996
146 m awayRef 1996216510542
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5044 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 5 January 1982
159 m awayRef 1982212700021
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015215001689 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 2015.