C road crash in South Staffordshire WV10 on 1 December 2019 at 18:36 involving an Audi A7
An Audi A7 and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on a C road in South Staffordshire at 18:36 on Sunday 1 December 2019. The 36-year-old male driver of the Audi A7 and the 57-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2019
- Sunday, 18:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A7 and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64763, longitude -2.09072, in the WV10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Featherstone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Featherstone, Sharehill & Saredon, South Staffordshire, WV10 7AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019210904687
- Council area
- South Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 2016.
Serious
Honda CBR125R crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 17 August 2016
5 m awayRef 2016210101319
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 5 January 2010
6 m awayRef 2010210000224
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 27 September 2012
10 m awayRef 2012212005123
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 16 July 1979
61 m awayRef 1979219200423
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 9 February 1980
71 m awayRef 1980210200078
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 4 May 1994
91 m awayRef 1994214916604
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A7
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A7)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019210904687 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Staffordshire road accident statistics for 2019.