Unclassified road crash in Cannock Chase WS12 on 17 November 2017 at 18:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase at 18:30 on Friday 17 November 2017. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2017
- Friday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71262, longitude -1.97713, in the WS12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawnsley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hednesford Hills & Rawnsley, Cannock Chase, WS12 0JY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017210243129
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 460
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1996.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 31 October 1996
2 m awayRef 1996216922700
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 29 July 1982
2 m awayRef 1982212200479
Slight
Daihatsu Sirion crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 19 December 2008
2 m awayRef 2008218018809
Serious
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 9 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025211680476
Slight
Seat Leon crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 11 November 2016
8 m awayRef 2016210132600
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 22 September 2010
11 m awayRef 2010210005953
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017210243129 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 2017.