A34 crash in Stafford on 7 December 2016 at 23:25 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the A34 in Stafford at 23:25 on Wednesday 7 December 2016. The 22-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77842, longitude -2.07479, in the ST17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016210136993
- Council area
- Stafford
- 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
- 40 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1995.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A34 in Stafford, 28 September 1995
4 m awayRef 1995215600947
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Stafford, 9 October 1988
4 m awayRef 1988218702530
Slight
Lexus CT 200 crash on the A34 in South Staffordshire, 14 August 2020
5 m awayRef 2020211005522
Slight
Lorry crash on the A34 in Stafford, 26 August 1986
7 m awayRef 1986216700668
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Stafford, 4 November 1983
7 m awayRef 1983213700822
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A34 in Stafford, 17 March 1980
7 m awayRef 1980210800100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,595 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016210136993 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stafford road accident statistics for 2016.