B4397 crash in Shropshire on 5 March 2007 at 07:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4397 in Shropshire at 07:50 on Monday 5 March 2007. The 46-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 19-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 2007
- Monday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.8102, longitude -2.82514, in the SY4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722FA85762
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4397
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 July 2000.
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 22 July 2000
At the same spotRef 200022FC18990
Serious
Bedford crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 8 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199522FB07546
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 12 June 2016
11 m awayRef 2016220086681
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B5067 in Shropshire, 16 June 1996
14 m awayRef 199622FL04933
Slight
Nissan Navara crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 24 November 2025
15 m awayRef 2025221673556
Slight
Dennis crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 6 November 1996
22 m awayRef 199622FN08799
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200722FA85762 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.