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Serious A531 crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme on 17 December 2025 at 08:16 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A531 in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 08:16 on Wednesday 17 December 2025. A male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
17 Dec 2025
Wednesday, 08:16
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00717, longitude -2.32343, in the CW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Madeley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Madeley & Betley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, CW3 9TA area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Newcastle-under-Lyme

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2025211684161
Council area
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Police force
Staffordshire
Police attended the scene
No, reported using a self completion form
Highway authority
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
531
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other junction
Second road class
Unclassified

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 March 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Left-hand drive
    No

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside
    Serious injury band
    Less serious

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 2025211684161 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle-under-Lyme road accident statistics for 2025.