B4397 crash in Shropshire on 20 May 2008 at 02:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsavan
A Vauxhall Corsavan crashed on the B4397 in Shropshire at 02:00 on Tuesday 20 May 2008. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2008
- Tuesday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsavan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.79952, longitude -2.94315, 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
- 200822FA88363
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 August 1997.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 11 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199722FU04664
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 23 September 1990
10 m awayRef 1990220609040
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 20 May 2009
20 m awayRef 200922F902991
Slight
Car crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 4 December 1989
20 m awayRef 1989220612005
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 2 June 1998
32 m awayRef 199822FD02143
Serious
Honda crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 16 May 1997
32 m awayRef 199722FM03048
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsavan
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsavan)
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 200822FA88363 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.