C road crash in Lichfield WS7 on 25 September 2009 at 21:58 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on a C road in Lichfield at 21:58 on Friday 25 September 2009. A 17-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old male passenger were 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
- 25 Sep 2009
- Friday, 21:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67962, longitude -1.89805, in the WS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burntwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Summerfield & All Saints, Lichfield, WS7 0EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009219007255
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 October 1985.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 31 October 1985
10 m awayRef 1985215500855
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 27 January 1980
10 m awayRef 1980210500035
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on a C road in Lichfield, 11 February 2012
61 m awayRef 2012212000822
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on a C road in Lichfield, 29 December 2013
61 m awayRef 20132130X0125
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Lichfield, 24 September 2009
70 m awayRef 2009219007246
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Lichfield, 19 September 2003
71 m awayRef 2003213424994
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2009219007255 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 2009.