A521 crash in Stafford on 17 January 2025 at 17:43 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Toyota C-HR were involved in a crash on the A521 in Stafford at 17:43 on Friday 17 January 2025. The 21-year-old male driver of the Mercedes A Class was 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
- 17 Jan 2025
- Friday, 17:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Toyota C-HR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97211, longitude -2.08211, in the ST11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meir Park, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 7WA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211543205
- Council area
- Stafford
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 521
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A521 in Stafford, 28 November 2013
4 m awayRef 2013213006499
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on the A521 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 22 January 1990
4 m awayRef 1990210403500
Slight
Car crash on the A521 in Stafford, 3 November 1984
8 m awayRef 1984214400484
Slight
Car crash on the A521 in Stafford, 29 January 1988
13 m awayRef 1988218400100
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A521 in Stafford, 9 February 2002
13 m awayRef 2002212303501
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 28 March 1987
49 m awayRef 1987217400115
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota C-HR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025211543205 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 2025.