B5398 crash in Shropshire on 20 February 2002 at 09:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series hit a pedestrian on the B5398 in Shropshire at 09:00 on Wednesday 20 February 2002. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2002
- Wednesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9689, longitude -2.67821, in the SY13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitchurch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitchurch West, Shropshire, SY13 1BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200222FE26494
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5398
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2011.
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Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 26 September 1983
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 200222FE26494 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.