A51 crash in Lichfield on 14 July 2016 at 22:25 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A Vauxhall Mokka and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the A51 in Lichfield at 22:25 on Thursday 14 July 2016. A 24-year-old female passenger in the Mazda 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2016
- Thursday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Mokka and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.67174, longitude -1.77676, in the WS14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016210087842
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 23 August 1986
52 m awayRef 1986216500613
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 11 January 1988
57 m awayRef 1988218503539
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Lichfield, 16 December 2003
77 m awayRef 2003213436280
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on a C road in Lichfield, 18 January 1994
77 m awayRef 1994214818777
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lichfield, 13 January 2006
85 m awayRef 2006216401743
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Lichfield, 20 September 1999
120 m awayRef 1999219420964
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016210087842 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 2016.