A500 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 3 July 2017 at 07:50 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars were involved in a crash on the A500 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 07:50 on Monday 3 July 2017. The 48-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 2017
- Monday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.07895, longitude -2.10647, 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
- 2017210200581
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 500
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1989.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 17 September 1989
41 m awayRef 1989219402829
Slight
Car crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 6 March 2005
56 m awayRef 2005215208739
Serious
Van crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 28 February 1989
72 m awayRef 1989219402006
Slight
Car crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 19 August 2006
75 m awayRef 2006216222851
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 30 June 2003
95 m awayRef 2003213215683
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A53 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 18 April 2007
107 m awayRef 2007217009982
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2017210200581 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.