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Unclassified road crash in Lichfield WS13 on 23 December 1985 at 16:00 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Lichfield at 16:00 on Monday 23 December 1985. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Dec 1985
Monday, 16:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69903, longitude -1.86456, in the WS13 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1985215501038
Council area
Lichfield
Police force
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1985215501038 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lichfield road accident statistics for 1985.