Unclassified road crash in Stoke-on-Trent ST6 on 19 December 2025 at 17:24 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Hyundai Tucson were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent at 17:24 on Friday 19 December 2025. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2025
- Friday, 17:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Hyundai Tucson
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0351, longitude -2.18872, in the ST6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Etruria & Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5JL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211685593
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2009.
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 8 October 2009
12 m awayRef 2009219007604
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 January 2001
18 m awayRef 2001211102603
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 4 May 2007
26 m awayRef 2007217011497
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 13 February 2004
39 m awayRef 2004214105375
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 9 February 1997
39 m awayRef 1997217303989
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 17 April 2001
42 m awayRef 2001211106961
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Tucson
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025211685593 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.