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A461 crash in Lichfield on 24 December 1989 at 22:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the A461 in Lichfield at 22:45 on Sunday 24 December 1989. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
24 Dec 1989
Sunday, 22:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.66945, longitude -1.86465, in the WS13 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1989219508682
Council area
Lichfield
Police force
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
461
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, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Flood over 3cm deep

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    1,596 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 23, 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 1989219508682 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 1989.