Serious A41 crash in Shropshire on 15 September 2009 at 07:31 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A41 in Shropshire at 07:31 on Tuesday 15 September 2009. The 22-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 2009
- Tuesday, 07:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90206, longitude -2.62201, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200922F905118
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2013.
Slight
MAN crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 31 August 2013
At the same spotRef 201322F303191
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 11 October 1997
14 m awayRef 199722FX05794
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 6 May 1991
41 m awayRef 1991220805003
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 16 December 2014
41 m awayRef 201422F404813
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 21 January 1997
45 m awayRef 199722FQ00337
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A41 in Shropshire, 4 August 2000
63 m awayRef 200022FE19175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, 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 200922F905118 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 2009.