B3139 crash in Somerset on 24 December 1991 at 23:45 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B3139 in Somerset at 23:45 on Tuesday 24 December 1991. The 18-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic and a 17-year-old male passenger in the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1991
- Tuesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26068, longitude -2.50154, in the BA3 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
- 19915291F1935
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3139
- 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
- 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 5 October 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 5 October 1990
At the same spotRef 19905290F1546
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 22 July 2008
28 m awayRef 2008520808037
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 10 January 2017
30 m awayRef 2017520700326
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 24 July 2003
32 m awayRef 2003520970479
Slight
Car crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 23 November 2013
42 m awayRef 2013520308718
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 25 November 2015
50 m awayRef 2015520508703
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,335 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- 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 19915291F1935 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 1991.