Unclassified road crash in Lichfield WS13 on 11 September 2012 at 18:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield at 18:15 on Tuesday 11 September 2012. The 10-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2012
- Tuesday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6783, longitude -1.83904, in the WS13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lichfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leomansley, Lichfield, WS13 6QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212004841
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 130 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 11 April 1989
130 m awayRef 1989219506812
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 2 July 1991
143 m awayRef 1991211512450
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on a C road in Lichfield, 25 September 2010
144 m awayRef 2010210005999
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 26 June 2002
149 m awayRef 2002212413458
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Lichfield, 19 April 2007
149 m awayRef 2007217010449
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 8 October 1987
153 m awayRef 1987217502891
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 10, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2012212004841 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.