Serious unclassified road crash in Stafford ST17 on 8 April 2025 at 15:31 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Stafford at 15:31 on Tuesday 8 April 2025. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Tuesday, 15:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.78142, longitude -2.0746, in the ST17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stafford.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211575408
- Council area
- Stafford
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 158 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2002.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 3 October 2002
158 m awayRef 2002212320013
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 18 July 2012
175 m awayRef 2012212003701
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Stafford, 25 August 2015
211 m awayRef 2015210028276
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A34 in Stafford, 13 November 1998
219 m awayRef 1998218625146
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A34 in Stafford, 16 August 2006
223 m awayRef 2006216322652
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the A34 in Stafford, 22 January 2009
223 m awayRef 2009219000815
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2025211575408 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.