A51 crash in Lichfield on 12 July 1997 at 14:15 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A51 in Lichfield at 14:15 on Saturday 12 July 1997. The 28-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 1997
- Saturday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67803, longitude -1.82543, in the WS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lichfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997217814644
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 51
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2001.
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Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 20 June 2001
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Leyland Cars Mini crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 4 February 1997
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Ford Escort crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 26 April 1999
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Dacia Logan crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 8 December 2022
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Car crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 19 October 1979
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Austin Metro crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 12 May 1999
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,052 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 1997217814644 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 1997.