A489 crash in Shropshire on 28 July 2003 at 14:00 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A489 in Shropshire at 14:00 on Monday 28 July 2003. The 35-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo and a 44-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2003
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53191, longitude -3.1068, in the SY15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322FD33900
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 489
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2017.
Slight
Volvo V50 crash on the A489 in Shropshire, 4 July 2017
9 m awayRef 2017220200644
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A489 in Shropshire, 31 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200122FD24794
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A489 in Shropshire, 29 July 2019
11 m awayRef 2019220865170
Serious
Seat Exeo crash on the A489 in Shropshire, 31 October 2023
11 m awayRef 2023221372883
Serious
Austin Morris Princess crash on the A489 in Shropshire, 5 August 1990
14 m awayRef 1990220608078
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A489 in Shropshire, 23 December 2016
20 m awayRef 2016220146689
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,193 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200322FD33900 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.