Unclassified road crash in Stafford ST18 on 11 April 2025 at 22:49 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on an unclassified road in Stafford at 22:49 on Friday 11 April 2025. The 18-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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 2025
- Friday, 22:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.85704, longitude -2.08904, in the ST18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stafford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211576971
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 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, 326 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2004.
Slight
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Ford Escort crash on the B5066 in Stafford, 13 April 1999
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5066 in Stafford, 12 April 1999
446 m awayRef 1999219309510
Slight
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Serious
Aprilia Tuono crash on the B5066 in Stafford, 27 June 2021
450 m awayRef 2021211064869
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2025211576971 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.