Serious B5065 crash in Shropshire on 23 December 2003 at 19:30 involving a Volvo 740
A car and a Volvo 740 were involved in a crash on the B5065 in Shropshire at 19:30 on Tuesday 23 December 2003. The 64-year-old female driver of the Volvo 740 was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volvo 740
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.8681, longitude -2.68347, in the SY4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322FE36455
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5065
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 January 2015.
Serious
Volvo crash on the B5065 in Shropshire, 22 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201522F500357
Slight
Car crash on the B5065 in Shropshire, 5 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983220608016
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5065 in Shropshire, 29 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200422FE42020
Fatal
Renault Modus crash on the B5065 in Shropshire, 21 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200522FE46890
Slight
Skoda 130 crash on the B5065 in Shropshire, 18 October 1995
22 m awayRef 199522FP09444
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5065 in Shropshire, 12 January 2024
30 m awayRef 2024221401723
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 740
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,316 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo 740)
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 200322FE36455 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.