A4117 crash in Shropshire on 2 January 2018 at 09:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A4117 in Shropshire at 09:40 on Tuesday 2 January 2018. The 86-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 2018
- Tuesday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38239, longitude -2.65072, in the SY8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220255362
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4117
- 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
- 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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 1982.
Slight
Van crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 1 September 1982
13 m awayRef 1982220109007
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 11 December 2004
15 m awayRef 200422FD42539
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 19 March 2000
46 m awayRef 200022FD17652
Serious
Lorry crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 12 November 1987
58 m awayRef 1987220511015
Slight
Ford P100 crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 25 March 1994
58 m awayRef 1994220603015
Serious
Vauxhall Viva crash on the A4117 in Shropshire, 23 December 2023
94 m awayRef 2023221392960
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018220255362 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 2018.