A51 crash in Lichfield on 15 April 2007 at 09:15 involving a Honda NT700V motorcycle
A Honda NT700V motorcycle and a Mitsubishi Shogun were involved in a crash on the A51 in Lichfield at 09:15 on Sunday 15 April 2007. The 53-year-old male rider of the Honda NT700V motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2007
- Sunday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda NT700V and Mitsubishi Shogun
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6935, longitude -1.85008, in the WS13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longdon, Lichfield, WS13 8HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007217009774
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 51
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2015.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 3 December 2015
13 m awayRef 2015210034910
Slight
Kawasaki ER500 crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 14 February 2014
19 m awayRef 2014214001063
Slight
Car crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 31 August 1982
28 m awayRef 1982212500619
Slight
Honda CBR125R crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 28 December 2018
43 m awayRef 2018210354068
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 3 October 2018
48 m awayRef 2018210338201
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 11 April 2025
56 m awayRef 2025211576860
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda NT700V
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 680 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda NT700V)
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 2007217009774 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 2007.