Serious B5417 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 28 January 2016 at 07:35 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the B5417 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 07:35 on Thursday 28 January 2016. The 19-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 2016
- Thursday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9905, longitude -1.97451, in the ST10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016210042820
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 13 August 1980
33 m awayRef 1980210400264
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 31 July 1997
40 m awayRef 1997217116310
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 1 July 1990
43 m awayRef 1990210404297
Serious
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 1 September 2008
52 m awayRef 2008218014741
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 14 May 1995
65 m awayRef 1995215110733
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 7 August 1996
87 m awayRef 1996216116323
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016210042820 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 2016.