Serious unclassified road crash in Stafford ST12 on 23 October 2017 at 17:45 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on an unclassified road in Stafford at 17:45 on Monday 23 October 2017. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and a 59-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Oct 2017
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94478, longitude -2.20199, in the ST12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017210274830
- 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
- 60 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 122 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 September 2001.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 22 September 2001
122 m awayRef 2001211317004
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 4 August 2024
266 m awayRef 2024211477034
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 20 July 1985
626 m awayRef 1985215700533
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 15 January 1982
629 m awayRef 1982212700035
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 19 May 1987
643 m awayRef 1987217700317
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on a C road in Stafford, 27 October 2009
644 m awayRef 2009219008341
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 2017210274830 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.