Serious unclassified road crash in Lichfield WS7 on 16 June 2025 at 12:35 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on an unclassified road in Lichfield at 12:35 on Monday 16 June 2025. The 77-year-old female driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Monday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68415, longitude -1.92447, in the WS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burntwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Summerfield & All Saints, Lichfield, WS7 4RT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211603492
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 2005.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 20 August 2005
32 m awayRef 2005215427798
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 11 April 1980
51 m awayRef 1980210500159
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 21 September 1982
128 m awayRef 1982212500688
Slight
Audi A5 crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 27 October 2017
131 m awayRef 2017210277884
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 25 July 1992
139 m awayRef 1992212212457
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on an unclassified road in Lichfield, 13 April 2015
140 m awayRef 2015215001993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2025211603492 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 2025.