B4368 crash in Shropshire on 19 September 1998 at 18:15 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B4368 in Shropshire at 18:15 on Saturday 19 September 1998. The 23-year-old male driver of the Renault 5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 1998
- Saturday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault 5 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42922, longitude -2.88887, in the SY7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199822FP03671
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4368
- 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, 211 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2008.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4369 in Shropshire, 11 December 2008
211 m awayRef 200822F900039
Slight
Jaguar F-Pace crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 15 October 2022
219 m awayRef 2022221232448
Slight
Car crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 15 April 1989
262 m awayRef 1989220504056
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 7 December 2021
284 m awayRef 2021221121503
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the B4368 in Shropshire, 18 December 2004
313 m awayRef 200422FD42324
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4367 in Shropshire, 13 July 1986
336 m awayRef 1986220507036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
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 199822FP03671 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 1998.