Serious B3115 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 13 September 1981 at 02:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset at 02:05 on Sunday 13 September 1981. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 1981
- Sunday, 02:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33923, longitude -2.42201, in the BA2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198152EBC1101
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3115
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2009.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 17 February 2009
51 m awayRef 2009520901712
Slight
Car crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 5 April 2008
73 m awayRef 2008520806442
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 31 October 2008
85 m awayRef 2008520811486
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 14 July 1983
86 m awayRef 198352EBC0907
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 7 January 2018
142 m awayRef 2018521801287
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 26 November 2010
152 m awayRef 2010521009340
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, 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 198152EBC1101 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 1981.