Spate of road crashes
A car demolished railings outside a shop in one of a spate of car accidents across Shropshire and Mid Wales. A car demolished railings outside a shop in one of a spate of car accidents across Shropshire and Mid Wales. Two cars were involved in the collision near the Spar shop on the A483 at Four Crosses, near Oswestry, at about 7.15pm yesterday. No-one was seriously injured but firefighters dealt with a fuel spillage and checked that there had been no structural damage to the shop. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
Two cars were involved in the collision near the Spar shop on the A483 at Four Crosses, near Oswestry, at about 7.15pm yesterday.
No-one was seriously injured but firefighters dealt with a fuel spillage and checked that there had been no structural damage to the shop.
In another accident a woman was taken to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital following a crash on the A53 between Tern Hill and Market Drayton when the car she was in burst through a hedge and overturned in a field at 6.45pm.
Earlier, two women were injured in a crash on the A53 near Hopton, Market Drayton. A woman in her 40s suffered serious leg injuries and had to be freed from the wreckage of her car by firefighters using cutting equipment.
The driver of the second vehicle, a woman believed to be in her 20s, suffered minor injuries. Both were taken to hospital by ambulance.
The crash involved a green Renault Clio, a blue Ford Fiesta and a coach. Police said no-one on the coach was injured.
Meanwhile a man, believed to be aged about 20, suffered minor injuries when the car he was driving overturned in Highley Road, Billingsley, near Bridgnorth.
He suffered a cut to the head in the incident which happened at about 4.45pm. He was released from his car before firefighters arrived.
