Serious A523 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 15 May 2025 at 18:59 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the A523 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 18:59 on Thursday 15 May 2025. A male passenger in the BMW 1 Series was seriously injured and the 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 May 2025
- Thursday, 18:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12276, longitude -2.05345, in the ST13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211590633
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 523
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2000.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 2 December 2000
10 m awayRef 2000210221588
Slight
Car crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 14 January 1980
10 m awayRef 1980210400013
Slight
MZ crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 12 May 1994
22 m awayRef 1994214113596
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 1 May 2005
50 m awayRef 2005215215282
Slight
Car crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 5 January 1980
50 m awayRef 1980210400006
Slight
Car crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 4 March 2005
57 m awayRef 2005215209102
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2025211590633 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 2025.