A5127 crash in Lichfield on 18 January 2012 at 15:45 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 and a BMW M3 were involved in a crash on the A5127 in Lichfield at 15:45 on Wednesday 18 January 2012. The 77-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 207 and the 41-year-old female driver of the BMW M3 were 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
- 18 Jan 2012
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 207 and BMW M3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64808, longitude -1.83413, in the WS14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shenstone, Lichfield, WS14 0GR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212000394
- 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
- 5127
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2009.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 8 November 2009
10 m awayRef 2009219008347
Slight
Car crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 4 February 1988
22 m awayRef 1988218503736
Slight
Car crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 2 February 1981
22 m awayRef 1981211500046
Serious
Car crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 12 March 1988
32 m awayRef 1988218504017
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 4 December 2012
41 m awayRef 2012212006511
Slight
Car crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 1 March 1985
42 m awayRef 1985215500149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: BMW M3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW M3)
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 2012212000394 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 2012.