Unclassified road crash in Lichfield WS15 on 16 June 2017 at 17:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A bicycle and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield at 17:00 on Friday 16 June 2017. The male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2017
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72505, longitude -1.90898, in the WS15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lichfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017210199664
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 1997.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 14 August 1997
10 m awayRef 1997217917249
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 12 June 2009
128 m awayRef 2009219004651
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 19 November 2017
264 m awayRef 2017210244050
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 17 January 1993
372 m awayRef 1993213213680
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 10 January 1982
382 m awayRef 1982212200015
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 13 September 1998
406 m awayRef 1998218820214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South 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 home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, on vehicle 1 (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 2017210199664 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.