A483 crash in Shropshire on 15 March 1990 at 17:20 involving a Dodge lorry
A Dodge lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A483 in Shropshire at 17:20 on Thursday 15 March 1990. A 25-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 1990
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dodge and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.78122, longitude -3.08891, in the SY22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990220603033
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 483
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2022.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A483 in Powys, 19 August 2022
21 m awayRef 2022631213664
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 11 December 1997
32 m awayRef 199763D542797
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A483 in Powys, 7 December 2019
32 m awayRef 201963D120419
Slight
Car crash on the A483 in Powys, 22 December 2005
32 m awayRef 200563DP47305
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A483 in Powys, 24 November 2004
32 m awayRef 200463DP48804
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A483 in Shropshire, 28 May 1990
36 m awayRef 1990220605072
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dodge
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,802 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1990220603033 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shropshire road accident statistics for 1990.