A34 crash in Cannock Chase on 16 April 2015 at 21:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Volkswagen Beetle were involved in a crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase at 21:00 on Thursday 16 April 2015. The 52-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Beetle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2015
- Thursday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Volkswagen Beetle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68415, longitude -2.02573, in the WS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cannock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cannock Longford & Bridgtown, Cannock Chase, WS11 0EE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015215001986
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase, 12 April 2005
7 m awayRef 2005215312972
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase, 28 January 1996
7 m awayRef 1996216902145
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase, 22 June 2005
7 m awayRef 2005215321047
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase, 15 September 1994
7 m awayRef 1994214917363
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase, 11 March 1994
12 m awayRef 1994214916283
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase, 17 January 1991
12 m awayRef 1991211208636
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Beetle)
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 2015215001986 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 2015.