Serious B5038 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 13 June 2025 at 16:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B5038 in Stoke-on-Trent at 16:30 on Friday 13 June 2025. The 42-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97813, longitude -2.12974, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211602595
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5038
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 11 January 1997
7 m awayRef 1997217201329
Serious
Lorry crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 April 1983
22 m awayRef 1983213600144
Slight
Lorry crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 October 1979
22 m awayRef 1979219600437
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5035 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 November 1991
24 m awayRef 1991211606969
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B5038 in Stoke-on-Trent, 5 December 2012
29 m awayRef 2012212006542
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B5038 in Stoke-on-Trent, 7 October 2015
39 m awayRef 2015210030570
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025211602595 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.