A53 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 18 March 2017 at 13:19 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A53 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 13:19 on Saturday 18 March 2017. A 45-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2017
- Saturday, 13:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07678, longitude -2.11236, in the ST9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Endon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brown Edge and Endon, Staffordshire Moorlands, ST9 9DY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017210169515
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 53
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5051
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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1990.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 17 December 1990
2 m awayRef 1990210405148
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 3 April 2013
6 m awayRef 2013213001824
Slight
Car crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 23 September 1982
8 m awayRef 1982212400429
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 26 September 1985
8 m awayRef 1985215400423
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 10 April 2018
8 m awayRef 2018210312337
Slight
Car crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 15 July 1980
8 m awayRef 1980210400219
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017210169515 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 2017.