B3355 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 12 June 1979 at 08:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3355 in Bath and North East Somerset at 08:30 on Tuesday 12 June 1979. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 1979
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30117, longitude -2.49625, in the BS39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paulton.
Map of where the crash happened in Bath and North East Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197952FKR0684
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3355
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 1988.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3355 in Bath and North East Somerset, 29 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198852ER01472
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3355 in Bath and North East Somerset, 6 May 2007
36 m awayRef 2007520706299
Serious
Lorry crash on the B3355 in Bath and North East Somerset, 3 February 1979
50 m awayRef 197952FKR0139
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3355 in Bath and North East Somerset, 28 May 2006
61 m awayRef 2006520070670
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3355 in Bath and North East Somerset, 7 December 2015
71 m awayRef 2015521600276
Slight
Lorry crash on the B3355 in Bath and North East Somerset, 17 January 1979
71 m awayRef 197952FKR0065
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197952FKR0684 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 1979.