Unclassified road crash in Stoke-on-Trent ST3 on 24 December 2016 at 04:00 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Volkswagen Passat taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent at 04:00 on Saturday 24 December 2016. The 27-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat taxi 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
- 24 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97825, longitude -2.12352, in the ST3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lightwood North & Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4RH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stoke-on-Trent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016210142978
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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 15 June 2011.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 15 June 2011
4 m awayRef 2011211003345
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 16 November 1996
6 m awayRef 1996216223460
Serious
Audi C crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 20 August 1991
13 m awayRef 1991211606521
Serious
Optare Solo crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 15 May 2004
16 m awayRef 2004214114912
Serious
Car crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 21 November 1989
27 m awayRef 1989219603403
Slight
Car crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 June 1984
27 m awayRef 1984214600260
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016210142978 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stoke-on-Trent road accident statistics for 2016.