B4378 crash in Shropshire on 7 April 1992 at 21:05 involving a Rover Range Rover
A Rover Range Rover crashed on the B4378 in Shropshire at 21:05 on Tuesday 7 April 1992. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 1992
- Tuesday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Range Rover
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55171, longitude -2.61245, in the TF13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992220904019
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4378
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4378 in Shropshire, 13 June 2011
22 m awayRef 201122G102400
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the B4378 in Shropshire, 2 December 1997
71 m awayRef 199722GE06997
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B4378 in Shropshire, 18 November 1992
92 m awayRef 1992220911021
Serious
BMW R 850 R crash on the B4378 in Shropshire, 29 July 2001
106 m awayRef 200122GC13790
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4378 in Shropshire, 14 April 1992
163 m awayRef 1992220904017
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B4378 in Shropshire, 26 June 2020
166 m awayRef 2020220963294
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,528 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Range Rover)
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 1992220904019 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 1992.