A370 crash in North Somerset on 7 September 1987 at 17:35 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A370 in North Somerset at 17:35 on Monday 7 September 1987. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 1987
- Monday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38408, longitude -2.79029, in the BS49 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198752JC00889
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 370
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 December 2017.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 3 December 2017
42 m awayRef 2017521800856
Slight
Car crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 13 June 1982
78 m awayRef 198252JNC0605
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 21 August 2008
81 m awayRef 2008520809316
Slight
Car crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 31 October 1980
81 m awayRef 198052JNC1319
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 4 January 2020
85 m awayRef 2020522001610
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 15 April 2005
91 m awayRef 2005520049131
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198752JC00889 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Somerset road accident statistics for 1987.