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Serious A38 crash in Lichfield on 10 December 2007 at 18:05 involving a Honda motorcycle

A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A38 in Lichfield at 18:05 on Monday 10 December 2007. A 42-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Dec 2007
Monday, 18:05
Vehicles
1
Honda
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69287, longitude -1.78839, in the WS13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whittington & Streethay, Lichfield, WS13 8LU area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2007217030642
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
38
Road type
Slip road
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
38

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
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
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2020.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda

    Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Journey purpose
    Other or not known
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years
    Engine capacity
    500 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)

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 2007217030642 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.