B5069 crash in Shropshire on 27 February 2017 at 20:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the B5069 in Shropshire at 20:30 on Monday 27 February 2017. The 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2017
- Monday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.89758, longitude -3.03626, in the SY11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gobowen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selattyn & Gobowen, Shropshire, SY11 3LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220164315
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5069
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5069 in Shropshire, 5 September 1998
20 m awayRef 199822FD03638
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B5069 in Shropshire, 31 March 1994
31 m awayRef 1994220703042
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B5069 in Shropshire, 19 December 2005
63 m awayRef 200522FC46963
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B5069 in Shropshire, 30 October 2002
64 m awayRef 200222FC30176
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B5069 in Shropshire, 20 March 2019
66 m awayRef 2019220825569
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the B5069 in Shropshire, 14 June 2022
66 m awayRef 2022221189959
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2017220164315 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 2017.