B4397 crash in Shropshire on 22 March 2011 at 07:20 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B4397 in Shropshire at 07:20 on Tuesday 22 March 2011. The 16-year-old male cyclist 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
- 22 Mar 2011
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.79412, longitude -2.87348, 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
- 201122F101159
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2007.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 23 April 2007
20 m awayRef 200722FA86013
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 31 October 2012
81 m awayRef 201222F204576
Fatal
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 10 July 2025
139 m awayRef 2025221614257
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 14 August 1993
204 m awayRef 1993220708046
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 2 December 2023
250 m awayRef 2023221395917
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 27 April 2018
312 m awayRef 2018220288274
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201122F101159 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 2011.