A51 crash in Lichfield on 5 December 2015 at 17:02 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris and a Nissan Juke were involved in a crash on the A51 in Lichfield at 17:02 on Saturday 5 December 2015. A 58-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Juke was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 17:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Auris and Nissan Juke
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67989, longitude -1.82714, 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 6NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015210035073
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 51
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 27 November 1991
6 m awayRef 1991211513532
Slight
Car crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 13 July 1987
6 m awayRef 1987217502283
Serious
Lorry crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 17 November 1979
6 m awayRef 1979219500545
Slight
Car crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 26 August 1987
6 m awayRef 1987217502593
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 27 April 1987
6 m awayRef 1987217501760
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 30 November 1993
6 m awayRef 1993213518420
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Juke
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Juke)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2015210035073 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 2015.