B4398 crash in Shropshire on 24 August 1999 at 16:15 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Foden lorry were involved in a crash on the B4398 in Shropshire at 16:15 on Tuesday 24 August 1999. The 31-year-old female driver of the Renault Laguna was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Aug 1999
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Foden
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77866, longitude -3.06145, in the SY10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199922FC11269
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4398
- 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
- 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 5 January 1986.
Slight
Van crash on the B4398 in Shropshire, 5 January 1986
At the same spotRef 1986220601020
Slight
Car crash on the B4398 in Shropshire, 17 March 1986
112 m awayRef 1986220603026
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B4398 in Shropshire, 10 June 1993
380 m awayRef 1993220706025
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4398 in Shropshire, 10 June 1994
390 m awayRef 199422FD04765
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4398 in Shropshire, 24 August 1985
403 m awayRef 1985220608047
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4579 in Shropshire, 18 December 1994
450 m awayRef 199422FU10966
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Foden
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
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 199922FC11269 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.