Serious A4113 crash in Shropshire on 10 May 1997 at 15:55 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on the A4113 in Shropshire at 15:55 on Saturday 10 May 1997. There were eight casualties: four people were seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 May 1997
- Saturday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 8
- 4 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38604, longitude -2.79146, in the SY8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199722FG02813
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4113
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 78 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 August 2015.
Serious
Car crash on the A4113 in Shropshire, 30 August 2015
78 m awayRef 201522E503115
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A4113 in Shropshire, 13 February 2011
100 m awayRef 201122F100778
Fatal
Peugeot 306 crash on the A4113 in Shropshire, 1 May 1997
108 m awayRef 199722FN02727
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A4113 in Shropshire, 2 February 1995
122 m awayRef 199522EX01539
Slight
Volvo XC70 crash on the A4113 in Shropshire, 21 March 2017
131 m awayRef 2017220168459
Fatal
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A4113 in Shropshire, 15 May 2021
134 m awayRef 2021221046523
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (8)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 6: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 7: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 8: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- 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 199722FG02813 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 1997.