A4601 crash in Cannock Chase on 20 January 2025 at 22:58 involving a Nissan Juke
A Nissan Juke and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase at 22:58 on Monday 20 January 2025. The 65-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Monday, 22:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Juke and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68129, longitude -2.0431, in the WS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cannock. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cannock Longford & Bridgtown, Cannock Chase, WS11 1QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cannock Chase
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211544218
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4601
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2017.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 11 January 2017
4 m awayRef 2017210154233
Slight
Car crash on the A460 in Cannock Chase, 30 November 1981
11 m awayRef 1981211200833
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 18 September 2009
13 m awayRef 2009219007119
Slight
Car crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 6 October 1997
13 m awayRef 1997217921036
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 23 November 1999
16 m awayRef 1999219325824
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4601 in Cannock Chase, 8 January 2006
16 m awayRef 2006216300945
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2025211544218 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 2025.