B5068 crash in Shropshire on 14 November 2002 at 17:23 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series crashed on the B5068 in Shropshire at 17:23 on Thursday 14 November 2002. The 38-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2002
- Thursday, 17:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 100 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92621, longitude -2.98562, in the SY11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200222FC30262
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2014.
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Motorcycle crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 16 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201422F403465
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Renault Clio crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 18 October 2008
10 m awayRef 200822FA89168
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Car crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 11 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982220612024
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Car crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 5 September 1985
10 m awayRef 1985220609005
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Peugeot 106 crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 30 May 2008
10 m awayRef 200822FA88452
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Volvo crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 31 May 2007
10 m awayRef 200722FA86283
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 Series)
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 200222FC30262 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 2002.