B4397 crash in Shropshire on 22 April 2016 at 06:30 involving a Fiat Punto
A goods vehicle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the B4397 in Shropshire at 06:30 on Friday 22 April 2016. The 33-year-old female driver of the Fiat Punto 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 Apr 2016
- Friday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.84739, longitude -2.80342, 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
- 2016220071179
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 15 September 1984
81 m awayRef 1984220609009
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 20 April 2016
108 m awayRef 2016220073782
Slight
New Holland crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 27 September 2012
110 m awayRef 201222F203977
Slight
Car crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 11 October 1980
453 m awayRef 1980220610048
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 10 April 1982
453 m awayRef 1982220604018
Serious
Car crash on the B4397 in Shropshire, 9 August 1989
775 m awayRef 1989220608023
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016220071179 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 2016.