A41 crash in Shropshire on 11 June 2008 at 08:25 involving a Mitsubishi L200 van
A Mitsubishi L200 van crashed on the A41 in Shropshire at 08:25 on Wednesday 11 June 2008. The 75-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 2008
- Wednesday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mitsubishi L200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90232, longitude -2.62424, in the SY13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Prees, Shropshire, SY13 2AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200822FA88493
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 October 2003.
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Yamaha Jog R crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 29 January 2008
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mitsubishi L200)
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 200822FA88493 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.