A518 crash in East Staffordshire on 13 January 2025 at 07:23 involving a Mazda CX-5
A Mazda CX-5 and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the A518 in East Staffordshire at 07:23 on Monday 13 January 2025. The 30-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Monday, 07:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda CX-5 and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.87043, longitude -1.94007, in the ST14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211540774
- Council area
- East Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 518
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- 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 serious injury crash on 21 May 2002.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A518 in East Staffordshire, 21 May 2002
1 m awayRef 2002212411425
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the A518 in East Staffordshire, 20 December 2001
1 m awayRef 2001211323411
Slight
Car crash on the A518 in East Staffordshire, 20 March 1981
22 m awayRef 1981211100105
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A518 in East Staffordshire, 4 October 2009
31 m awayRef 2009219007515
Slight
Car crash on the A518 in Stafford, 26 August 1979
40 m awayRef 1979219800385
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A518 in East Staffordshire, 13 December 2025
60 m awayRef 2025211682691
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda CX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025211540774 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Staffordshire road accident statistics for 2025.