Serious B5068 crash in Shropshire on 17 March 2008 at 17:35 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B5068 in Shropshire at 17:35 on Monday 17 March 2008. The 43-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Mar 2008
- Monday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92535, longitude -2.94752, in the SY12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822FA88072
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 September 2016.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 24 September 2016
7 m awayRef 2016220114548
Slight
Citroen C8 crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 19 February 2013
22 m awayRef 201322F300655
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 25 March 1995
82 m awayRef 199522FC02349
Slight
Car crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 14 October 1989
103 m awayRef 1989220610027
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 18 March 1992
126 m awayRef 1992220703026
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5068 in Shropshire, 10 October 1990
139 m awayRef 1990220610016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200822FA88072 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 2008.