A520 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 22 August 2025 at 13:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A520 in Stoke-on-Trent at 13:30 on Friday 22 August 2025. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was 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
- 22 Aug 2025
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97897, longitude -2.10263, 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 Meir South, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 7AE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211632106
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 520
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 4 September 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A520 in Stoke-on-Trent, 4 September 2000
4 m awayRef 2000210116135
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on the A520 in Stoke-on-Trent, 26 October 2000
4 m awayRef 2000210119099
Slight
Car crash on the A520 in Stoke-on-Trent, 1 May 1987
4 m awayRef 1987217600149
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A520 in Stoke-on-Trent, 5 July 1983
4 m awayRef 1983213600267
Slight
Car crash on the A520 in Stoke-on-Trent, 19 February 2005
4 m awayRef 2005215107118
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A520 in Stoke-on-Trent, 2 November 1994
4 m awayRef 1994214214372
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag exit lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2025211632106 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.