A5127 crash in Lichfield on 5 August 2018 at 18:30 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A5127 in Lichfield at 18:30 on Sunday 5 August 2018. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira and a 32-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68431, longitude -1.81911, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018210325669
- 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
- 5127
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 February 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 24 February 1980
19 m awayRef 1980210500074
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 28 September 1995
19 m awayRef 1995215822782
Slight
Car crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 12 July 2015
22 m awayRef 2015210026907
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A5127 in Lichfield, 27 August 1981
23 m awayRef 1981211500526
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 28 February 1995
25 m awayRef 1995215821427
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 17 November 1980
25 m awayRef 1980210500575
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018210325669 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 2018.