Unclassified road crash in Telford and Wrekin TF2 on 2 December 2017 at 15:47 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Telford and Wrekin at 15:47 on Saturday 2 December 2017. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 15:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72117, longitude -2.42914, in the TF2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Donnington, Telford and Wrekin, TF2 8BD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Telford and Wrekin
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220247381
- Council area
- Telford and Wrekin
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4640
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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2025.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A4640 in Telford and Wrekin, 13 October 2025
18 m awayRef 2025221654663
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Telford and Wrekin, 18 March 1997
21 m awayRef 199722GJ01734
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B5060 in Telford and Wrekin, 5 March 2003
22 m awayRef 200322GB29771
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5060 in Telford and Wrekin, 9 October 2007
22 m awayRef 200722GA86045
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4640 in Telford and Wrekin, 2 August 2018
24 m awayRef 2018220319213
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on the A4640 in Telford and Wrekin, 6 December 2022
64 m awayRef 2022221252030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2017220247381 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Telford and Wrekin road accident statistics for 2017.