Unclassified road crash in Lichfield WS13 on 4 September 2018 at 01:32 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Lichfield at 01:32 on Tuesday 4 September 2018. The 24-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2018
- Tuesday, 01:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69306, longitude -1.83335, in the WS13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lichfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chadsmead, Lichfield, WS13 7EG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018210338226
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2000.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 10 June 2000
1 m awayRef 2000210411057
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 15 April 1991
9 m awayRef 1991211511949
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 13 May 1987
13 m awayRef 1987217501860
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 2 June 1987
13 m awayRef 1987217501990
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 15 July 1997
15 m awayRef 1997217814861
Slight
Baotian BT 49 crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 4 October 2009
32 m awayRef 2009219007510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2018210338226 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.