Unclassified road crash in South Staffordshire WS6 on 21 January 2025 at 16:25 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire at 16:25 on Tuesday 21 January 2025. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Tuesday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65709, longitude -2.02849, in the WS6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211544609
- Council area
- South Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 21 September 1982
31 m awayRef 1982212200614
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 12 August 1981
111 m awayRef 1981211200562
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 5 November 1999
121 m awayRef 1999219325309
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 8 February 1996
130 m awayRef 1996216903015
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 15 June 2006
131 m awayRef 2006216316885
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 21 November 2002
131 m awayRef 2002212324756
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025211544609 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 2025.