Unclassified road crash in Lichfield WS13 on 17 January 2017 at 18:11 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield at 18:11 on Tuesday 17 January 2017. The 29-year-old male cyclist 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 18:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68812, longitude -1.82062, in the WS13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lichfield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017210147252
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1996.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 21 November 1996
2 m awayRef 1996216824176
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 17 November 1994
2 m awayRef 1994214820734
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 3 October 1980
2 m awayRef 1980210500491
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 12 September 1985
12 m awayRef 1985215500695
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 4 July 1985
12 m awayRef 1985215500509
Slight
Ford Capri crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 18 September 1996
12 m awayRef 1996216819028
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- 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
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 29, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017210147252 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 2017.