B4579 crash in Shropshire on 22 July 2006 at 10:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4579 in Shropshire at 10:00 on Saturday 22 July 2006. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2006
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.85183, longitude -3.04156, in the SY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oswestry.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200622FA49450
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4579
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 April 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A4083 in Shropshire, 11 April 1986
22 m awayRef 1986220604016
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4579 in Shropshire, 24 August 1994
22 m awayRef 199422FA07154
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 2 March 1986
28 m awayRef 1986220603004
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B4579 in Shropshire, 6 April 1998
32 m awayRef 199822FU01352
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4579 in Shropshire, 30 January 2006
32 m awayRef 200622FA47394
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4579 in Shropshire, 16 November 1996
32 m awayRef 199622FG09115
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200622FA49450 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 2006.