B5068 crash in Shropshire on 19 July 1999 at 17:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta, a Ford and a car were involved in a crash on the B5068 in Shropshire at 17:20 on Monday 19 July 1999. A 35-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1999
- Monday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91828, longitude -2.92104, in the SY12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199922FC10853
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 July 1989.
Slight
Van crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 21 July 1989
36 m awayRef 1989220607050
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 25 April 2001
36 m awayRef 200122FC22285
Slight
FSO Cars Caro crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 2 January 1997
45 m awayRef 199722FU00064
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 3 September 1994
67 m awayRef 199422FY07704
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 9 November 2012
103 m awayRef 201222F204630
Slight
Car crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 12 July 1979
139 m awayRef 1979220607027
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 199922FC10853 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 1999.