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Serious A495 crash in Shropshire on 30 October 1996 at 21:30 involving a car

Three cars were involved in a crash on the A495 in Shropshire at 21:30 on Wednesday 30 October 1996. A 17-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 17-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Oct 1996
Wednesday, 21:30
Vehicles
3
Car and 2 others
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.8701, longitude -3.03127, in the SY11 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199622FR08526
Council area
Shropshire
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
495
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 1998.

Vehicles involved (3)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    34 years

  • Vehicle 3: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front 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 199622FR08526 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 1996.