Serious unclassified road crash in Shropshire TF9 on 21 June 2007 at 17:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Shropshire at 17:10 on Thursday 21 June 2007. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jun 2007
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90928, longitude -2.48026, in the TF9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Market Drayton.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200722FA86439
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 2 May 1986
32 m awayRef 1986220605013
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 20 December 1982
40 m awayRef 1982220612067
Serious
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 5 February 1991
40 m awayRef 1991220802004
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 23 July 1991
50 m awayRef 1991220807019
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 12 August 1989
50 m awayRef 1989220608074
Slight
Audi C crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 20 October 1999
61 m awayRef 199922FG12221
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200722FA86439 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.