B3153 crash in Somerset on 21 March 1981 at 00:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3153 in Somerset at 00:05 on Saturday 21 March 1981. The 47-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and a 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 1981
- Saturday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04499, longitude -2.80305, in the TA10 postcode district. The location was in the former South Somerset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198152FYE0364
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3153
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 1998.
Slight
Ford crash on the A378 in Somerset, 12 February 1998
At the same spotRef 1998520094504
Serious
Car crash on the B3153 in Somerset, 20 March 2009
72 m awayRef 2009520903174
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3153 in Somerset, 12 August 2002
72 m awayRef 2002521091188
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3153 in Somerset, 20 November 2023
86 m awayRef 2023520301824
Serious
Bedford crash on the B3153 in Somerset, 15 April 2002
100 m awayRef 2002520539708
Serious
Car crash on the B3153 in Somerset, 22 June 1985
100 m awayRef 198552FO00820
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198152FYE0364 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Somerset road accident statistics for 1981.