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A36 crash in Somerset on 28 October 1982 at 05:15 involving a lorry

A lorry crashed on the A36 in Somerset at 05:15 on Thursday 28 October 1982. The 23-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
28 Oct 1982
Thursday, 05:15
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29015, longitude -2.3011, in the BA2 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198252FRO1571
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
36
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
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 5 January 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    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
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 23, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 16, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)

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 198252FRO1571 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 1982.