B5476 crash in Shropshire on 19 October 2014 at 00:40 involving a Jeep Cherokee
A Jeep Cherokee crashed on the B5476 in Shropshire at 00:40 on Sunday 19 October 2014. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jeep Cherokee
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92141, longitude -2.68238, in the SY13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201422F403939
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5476
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 November 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B5476 in Shropshire, 26 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983220611050
Serious
Car crash on the B5476 in Shropshire, 11 August 1979
14 m awayRef 1979220608022
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the B5476 in Shropshire, 23 October 2006
22 m awayRef 200622FA85010
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B5476 in Shropshire, 29 May 2011
32 m awayRef 201122F102168
Slight
Car crash on the B5476 in Shropshire, 19 October 1981
36 m awayRef 1981220610057
Serious
Car crash on the B5476 in Shropshire, 15 March 1979
42 m awayRef 1979220603029
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jeep Cherokee)
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 201422F403939 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 2014.