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Serious A5192 crash in Lichfield on 16 December 1987 at 16:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A5192 in Lichfield at 16:30 on Wednesday 16 December 1987. A 37-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Dec 1987
Wednesday, 16:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.70005, longitude -1.8212, in the WS13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lichfield.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987217503402
Council area
Lichfield
Police force
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5192
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1987217503402 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 1987.