A4117 crash in Shropshire on 20 October 2000 at 12:10 involving a Rover Maestro
A Rover Maestro and a Fiat Cinquecento were involved in a crash on the A4117 in Shropshire at 12:10 on Friday 20 October 2000. The 52-year-old male driver of the Rover Maestro and the 55-year-old female driver of the Fiat Cinquecento were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2000
- Friday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Maestro and Fiat Cinquecento
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37714, longitude -2.7004, in the SY8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200022FD20078
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4117
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2009.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 15 October 2009
14 m awayRef 200922F905764
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 25 August 2009
14 m awayRef 200922F904654
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 11 June 2000
20 m awayRef 200022FD18541
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 16 June 1996
22 m awayRef 199622FF04514
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 16 July 2000
41 m awayRef 200022FD18940
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 25 July 1995
41 m awayRef 199522EG08402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Cinquecento
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Maestro)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Cinquecento)
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 200022FD20078 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 2000.