Unclassified road crash in Stoke-on-Trent ST3 on 23 January 2025 at 21:59 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent at 21:59 on Thursday 23 January 2025. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Thursday, 21:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97945, longitude -2.13364, in the ST3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lightwood North & Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 4RH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211545558
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5038
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 26 November 1986
6 m awayRef 1986216600504
Slight
Van crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 19 July 1989
7 m awayRef 1989219602827
Slight
Car crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 22 March 1988
7 m awayRef 1988218600626
Slight
Lorry crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 November 1982
8 m awayRef 1982212600513
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 8 December 1993
8 m awayRef 1993213612061
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 April 1992
15 m awayRef 1992212607865
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2025211545558 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stoke-on-Trent road accident statistics for 2025.