Fatal unclassified road crash in South Staffordshire ST17 on 16 October 2025 at 08:00 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila crashed on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire at 08:00 on Thursday 16 October 2025. The 81-year-old female driver was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76456, longitude -2.07255, in the ST17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211655142
- 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
- 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
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2003.
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 23 November 2003
13 m awayRef 2003213333209
Serious
Citroen C2 crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 26 August 2011
18 m awayRef 2011211004767
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 23 April 2007
38 m awayRef 2007217010354
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Staffordshire, 19 April 1981
54 m awayRef 1981211200261
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 9 January 2006
95 m awayRef 2006216301245
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in South Staffordshire, 23 August 1997
153 m awayRef 1997217618172
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Agila)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2025211655142 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.