Serious unclassified road crash in Shropshire SY1 on 12 June 2025 at 17:20 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Shropshire at 17:20 on Thursday 12 June 2025. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72681, longitude -2.73943, in the SY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shrewsbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sundorne & Old Heath, Shropshire, SY1 4DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221602142
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2001.
Slight
Alfa Romeo 75 crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 5 January 2001
8 m awayRef 200122FA20831
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 2 November 1981
10 m awayRef 1981220611010
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 21 April 2008
13 m awayRef 200822FA88232
Slight
Volvo XC70 crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 30 June 2014
13 m awayRef 201422F402467
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 14 January 1994
22 m awayRef 1994220701021
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Shropshire, 18 March 1982
30 m awayRef 1982220603035
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2025221602142 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 2025.