A442 crash in Shropshire on 22 November 2016 at 22:10 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
Two Vauxhall Zafiras were involved in a crash on the A442 in Shropshire at 22:10 on Tuesday 22 November 2016. The 50-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 51-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2016
- Tuesday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62487, longitude -2.42341, in the TF11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016220163369
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 442
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A442 in Telford and Wrekin, 24 April 2000
3 m awayRef 200022GC14776
Serious
Car crash on the A442 in Shropshire, 9 May 1981
3 m awayRef 1981220705011
Serious
Car crash on the A442 in Telford and Wrekin, 29 August 1992
3 m awayRef 1992220908020
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A442 in Shropshire, 30 May 2018
5 m awayRef 2018220303715
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A442 in Shropshire, 11 September 2020
6 m awayRef 2020220982921
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A442 in Shropshire, 10 February 2016
7 m awayRef 2016220052705
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016220163369 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.