A51 crash in Lichfield on 17 September 2012 at 17:50 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a car were involved in a crash on the A51 in Lichfield at 17:50 on Monday 17 September 2012. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 18-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2012
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67242, longitude -1.81481, in the WS14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St John's, Lichfield, WS14 9QJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212004896
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- C
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 1995.
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Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 15 July 2025
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Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 1 September 2013
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Volkswagen Passat crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 11 July 2013
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Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 30 January 2007
10 m awayRef 2007217003473
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2012212004896 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.