A523 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 25 January 2019 at 17:10 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai hit a pedestrian on the A523 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 17:10 on Friday 25 January 2019. A 53-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2019
- Friday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.10669, longitude -2.0249, in the ST13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leek. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leek South, Staffordshire Moorlands, ST13 5DL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019210814912
- 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
- 523
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1983.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 11 July 1983
1 m awayRef 1983213400309
Serious
Kia Venga crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 31 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025211623163
Serious
Bus crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 22 January 1979
9 m awayRef 1979219400022
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 22 July 1996
10 m awayRef 1996216115234
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 3 July 1996
20 m awayRef 1996216113692
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 21 January 1991
23 m awayRef 1991211405284
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2019210814912 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 2019.