A5191 crash in Shropshire on 10 March 2012 at 14:10 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi hit a pedestrian on the A5191 in Shropshire at 14:10 on Saturday 10 March 2012. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.70983, longitude -2.75086, in the SY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shrewsbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Quarry & Coton Hill, Shropshire, SY1 1DZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201222F201167
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5191
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2008.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A5191 in Shropshire, 17 November 2008
14 m awayRef 200822FA00572
Slight
Car crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 23 February 1991
20 m awayRef 1991220702025
Slight
Car crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 25 July 1989
20 m awayRef 1989220607087
Slight
Bus crash on the A5191 in Shropshire, 26 April 1997
22 m awayRef 199722FA02600
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 15 December 1994
22 m awayRef 199422FY10878
Slight
Bus crash on the A5191 in Shropshire, 24 December 2008
22 m awayRef 200822F801103
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201222F201167 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 2012.