Appeal launched after fatal Shropshire collision
An appeal has been made for witnesses to a fatal road collision on the A5 in Shropshire to come forward with information.
West Mercia Police is asking for help to establish exactly what led up to the crash, which left a 35-year-old van driver dead.
The crash happened at 9.40am on Wednesday and involved a Citreon Berlingo van and a lorry just south of the Gledrid roundabout.
Firefighters from Oswestry and Ellesmere and a rescue tender crew from Wellington went to the scene of the accident to release the man from the wreckage of the van.
Paramedics also went to the scene but the van driver was confirmed dead at the scene.
The identity of the van driver has not yet been released by West Mercia Police.
Police are appealing for witnesses and anyone who has any information to contact 101 and quote the incident reference 133s of December 17.
The crash was the second fatality on the same stretch of road in a month. In November a driver died when his car was involved in a collision with a heavy goods vehicle.
Calls for the road to become a dual carriageway were re-iterated last week when Weston Rhyn Parish Council met following the November crash.
Councillors in the village, close to the scene of both tragedies, said that Government plans to invest £15 billion in a major nationwide road building programme should include the A5 through Shropshire and the Welsh border.
Parish council chairman Councillor Ralph Cooper said: "The council has been calling for the section of road to be dualled for many years."
