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A38 crash in North Somerset on 28 November 1987 at 14:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the A38 in North Somerset at 14:45 on Saturday 28 November 1987. An 8-year-old male passenger, a 10-year-old female passenger and the 21-year-old female driver were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
28 Nov 1987
Saturday, 14:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
3
3 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30469, longitude -2.82766, in the BS25 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198752JO01304
Council area
North Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
38
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1997.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 3: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 21, 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 198752JO01304 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.