C road crash in Lichfield WS13 on 13 October 1998 at 13:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on a C road in Lichfield at 13:45 on Tuesday 13 October 1998. A 71-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Oct 1998
- Tuesday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69888, longitude -1.89193, in the WS13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998218822740
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 228 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 30 October 1979
228 m awayRef 1979219500504
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 12 May 1988
311 m awayRef 1988218504418
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Lichfield, 29 October 1994
330 m awayRef 1994214917623
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 29 May 2015
357 m awayRef 2015210024871
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 22 November 2021
383 m awayRef 2021211112695
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in East Staffordshire, 31 May 1991
400 m awayRef 1991211512238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1998218822740 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 1998.