A5148 crash in Lichfield on 12 June 2013 at 18:40 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
An Iveco-Ford lorry, a Citroen C5 and a Lexus RX450 were involved in a crash on the A5148 in Lichfield at 18:40 on Wednesday 12 June 2013. A 38-year-old female passenger in the Citroen C5 and the 39-year-old male driver of the Citroen C5 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2013
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Iveco-Ford and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65742, longitude -1.81895, in the WS14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bourne Vale, Lichfield, WS14 9QP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013213003091
- 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
- 5148
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2006.
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A5148 in Lichfield, 6 December 2006
29 m awayRef 2006216032457
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A5148 in Lichfield, 3 June 1995
31 m awayRef 1995215822024
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A5148 in Lichfield, 31 October 2023
58 m awayRef 2023211371527
Fatal
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A5148 in Lichfield, 5 June 2005
59 m awayRef 2005215418722
Slight
Scania crash on the A38 in Lichfield, 3 November 2003
71 m awayRef 2003213430402
Serious
Leyland DAF FA 65 crash on the A5148 in Lichfield, 6 October 2003
96 m awayRef 2003213426750
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,861 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Lexus RX450
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,456 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C5)
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 2013213003091 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 2013.