Serious unclassified road crash in South Staffordshire DY7 on 1 September 2025 at 15:25 involving a Skoda Citigo
A Skoda Citigo and a Volvo lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire at 15:25 on Monday 1 September 2025. A 13-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Citigo and a 13-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Citigo were seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver of the Skoda Citigo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Sep 2025
- Monday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Citigo and Volvo
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49406, longitude -2.24043, in the DY7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211635979
- Council area
- South Staffordshire
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 18 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025211669991
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 5 June 1983
4 m awayRef 1983213200331
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 13 August 2018
4 m awayRef 2018210329914
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 1 December 2020
6 m awayRef 2020211029865
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 10 September 1988
7 m awayRef 1988218202371
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 14 October 1984
9 m awayRef 1984214200642
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Citigo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Citigo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Citigo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Citigo)
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 2025211635979 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.