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Serious A358 crash in Somerset on 23 July 1983 at 15:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the A358 in Somerset at 15:30 on Saturday 23 July 1983. A 48-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 64-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
Serious
Date
23 Jul 1983
Saturday, 15:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88108, longitude -2.95517, in the TA20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chard. The location was in the former South Somerset district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198352FYD1080
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
358
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 slight injury crash on 8 February 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    64 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 48, 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 198352FYD1080 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 1983.