Serious A41 crash in Shropshire on 24 December 2003 at 19:07 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A41 in Shropshire at 19:07 on Wednesday 24 December 2003. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 19:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69201, longitude -2.31689, in the TF11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322FJ36565
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 6 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199922GC10400
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 2 September 1992
61 m awayRef 1992220809004
Serious
Car crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 6 April 1989
76 m awayRef 1989220704009
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 23 September 1985
259 m awayRef 1985220709046
Fatal
Rover 200 Series crash on the A41 in Telford and Wrekin, 16 February 1993
294 m awayRef 1993220902007
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Shropshire, 5 March 1981
309 m awayRef 1981220703019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200322FJ36565 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.