Serious A367 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 6 May 1986 at 01:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A367 in Bath and North East Somerset at 01:25 on Tuesday 6 May 1986. The 50-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 1986
- Tuesday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27824, longitude -2.47364, in the BA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Midsomer Norton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198652ER00593
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 367
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, street lights lit
- 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 22 October 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A367 in Bath and North East Somerset, 22 October 1997
At the same spotRef 1997520093404
Slight
Car crash on the A367 in Bath and North East Somerset, 23 November 1983
At the same spotRef 198352EKR1561
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A367 in Bath and North East Somerset, 21 May 1992
At the same spotRef 19925292J0632
Slight
Car crash on the A367 in Bath and North East Somerset, 31 January 2006
At the same spotRef 2006520014419
Slight
Volvo crash on the A365 in Bath and North East Somerset, 1 March 2017
2 m awayRef 2017521701479
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A367 in Bath and North East Somerset, 28 August 2025
3 m awayRef 2025520000074
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, 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 198652ER00593 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 1986.