B4397 crash in Shropshire on 2 March 2007 at 07:45 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B4397 in Shropshire at 07:45 on Friday 2 March 2007. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2007
- Friday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80153, longitude -2.84455, in the SY4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722FA85747
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4397
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 January 2012.
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 2 January 2012
45 m awayRef 201222F200042
Slight
Volvo crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 21 November 2001
112 m awayRef 200122FE25253
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 19 August 1987
149 m awayRef 1987220608047
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 19 August 1998
163 m awayRef 199822FB03245
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 29 November 1993
370 m awayRef 1993220711043
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 12 January 2018
383 m awayRef 2018220259155
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200722FA85747 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 2007.