C road crash in Lichfield WS7 on 24 February 2015 at 12:30 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Lichfield at 12:30 on Tuesday 24 February 2015. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf and the 41-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2015
- Tuesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Trafic and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68261, longitude -1.94063, in the WS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burntwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chase Terrace, Lichfield, WS7 1NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015215001129
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A5190 in Lichfield, 7 August 1989
3 m awayRef 1989219507576
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5190 in Lichfield, 25 August 1994
3 m awayRef 1994214917387
Slight
Van crash on the A5190 in Lichfield, 15 December 1987
3 m awayRef 1987217503381
Slight
Car crash on the A5190 in Lichfield, 11 July 1984
7 m awayRef 1984214500509
Serious
Car crash on the A5190 in Lichfield, 29 June 1980
7 m awayRef 1980210500315
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A5190 in Lichfield, 25 February 2000
7 m awayRef 2000210404229
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015215001129 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.