A51 crash in Lichfield on 22 November 2025 at 06:30 involving a Volkswagen Tiguan
A Volkswagen Tiguan and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A51 in Lichfield at 06:30 on Saturday 22 November 2025. The 63-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Tiguan was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Tiguan and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.71533, longitude -1.87055, 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
- 2025211672080
- 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
- 51
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 9 April 1995
81 m awayRef 1995215821715
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 6 January 2002
90 m awayRef 2002212400609
Slight
Lorry crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 2 November 1982
122 m awayRef 1982212500839
Serious
Norton crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 9 January 2000
174 m awayRef 2000210400897
Slight
Lorry crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 10 April 1986
220 m awayRef 1986216500246
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A51 in Lichfield, 15 June 1994
264 m awayRef 1994214916869
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025211672080 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.