C road crash in Lichfield WS7 on 19 December 2000 at 21:40 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on a C road in Lichfield at 21:40 on Tuesday 19 December 2000. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2000
- Tuesday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.66678, longitude -1.91967, in the WS7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000210422684
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 13 May 1980
60 m awayRef 1980210500218
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 31 August 1984
70 m awayRef 1984214500657
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Lichfield, 16 May 1995
71 m awayRef 1995215918843
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 4 October 2004
72 m awayRef 2004214430702
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 9 November 1985
72 m awayRef 1985215500899
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 27 August 1988
80 m awayRef 1988218505085
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 2000210422684 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 2000.