Unclassified road crash in Stafford ST20 on 28 September 2017 at 15:13 involving a Smart Fortwo
A Smart Fortwo crashed on an unclassified road in Stafford at 15:13 on Thursday 28 September 2017. The 90-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2017
- Thursday, 15:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Smart Fortwo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.78115, longitude -2.26418, in the ST20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gnosall Heath.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017210239031
- Council area
- Stafford
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A518 in Stafford, 5 October 1983
3 m awayRef 1983213700729
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A518 in Stafford, 27 April 2000
12 m awayRef 2000210408165
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A518 in Stafford, 20 July 1998
12 m awayRef 1998218616006
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A518 in Stafford, 17 September 1994
28 m awayRef 1994214617780
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 30 November 1979
40 m awayRef 1979219800559
Slight
Lexus LS400 crash on the A518 in Stafford, 1 March 1995
59 m awayRef 1995215618657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Smart Fortwo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 90 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 90, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Smart Fortwo)
- 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 2017210239031 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 2017.