B5070 crash in Shropshire on 27 February 2018 at 09:12 involving a Kia Sportage
A Kia Sportage crashed on the B5070 in Shropshire at 09:12 on Tuesday 27 February 2018. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2018
- Tuesday, 09:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92631, longitude -3.04575, in the LL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weston Rhyn.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018220284266
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5070
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Frost or ice
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Shropshire, 19 October 1984
6 m awayRef 1984220610040
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Shropshire, 8 June 1980
6 m awayRef 1980220606011
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Shropshire, 13 March 1981
6 m awayRef 1981220603016
Fatal
Van crash on the A5 in Shropshire, 23 May 1989
6 m awayRef 1989220605024
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Shropshire, 3 December 1989
8 m awayRef 1989220612007
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A5 in Shropshire, 30 June 1990
15 m awayRef 1990220606072
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,975 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Sportage)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018220284266 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.