A528 crash in Shropshire on 24 December 2003 at 03:45 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A528 in Shropshire at 03:45 on Wednesday 24 December 2003. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.79922, longitude -2.76041, in the SY4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322FB36477
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 528
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 105 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2018.
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A528 in Shropshire, 5 September 2018
105 m awayRef 2018220325567
Serious
Car crash on the A528 in Shropshire, 7 January 1988
106 m awayRef 1988220601008
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A528 in Shropshire, 11 April 2011
172 m awayRef 201122F101611
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 30 October 1982
260 m awayRef 1982220610065
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 13 June 1980
282 m awayRef 1980220606038
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 7 May 1990
300 m awayRef 1990220605026
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200322FB36477 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 2003.