A34 crash in South Staffordshire on 12 July 2025 at 19:06 involving a Volvo C30
A Volvo C30 and a Suzuki SX4 were involved in a crash on the A34 in South Staffordshire at 19:06 on Saturday 12 July 2025. The 35-year-old male driver of the Volvo C30, a 14-year-old female passenger in the Volvo C30 and the 46-year-old male driver of the Suzuki SX4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2025
- Saturday, 19:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo C30 and Suzuki SX4
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64926, longitude -2.01289, in the WS6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay. It is one of the crashes that make up the Great Wyrley Landywood, South Staffordshire, WS6 6AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211615633
- Council area
- South Staffordshire
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- 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
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2019.
Slight
Audi A1 crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 29 January 2019
4 m awayRef 2019210825959
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A34 in South Staffordshire, 7 November 2005
7 m awayRef 2005215435663
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in South Staffordshire, 23 October 1980
7 m awayRef 1980210200730
Serious
Van crash on the A34 in Cannock Chase, 29 November 1982
7 m awayRef 1982212200800
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in South Staffordshire, 12 January 1984
7 m awayRef 1984214200023
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the A34 in South Staffordshire, 13 August 2011
7 m awayRef 2011211004522
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo C30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SX4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo C30)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo C30)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki SX4)
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 2025211615633 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Staffordshire road accident statistics for 2025.