A362 crash in Somerset on 18 December 1993 at 17:09 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Citroen BX were involved in a crash on the A362 in Somerset at 17:09 on Saturday 18 December 1993. The 16-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1993
- Saturday, 17:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Citroen BX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22899, longitude -2.305, in the BA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Frome. The location was in the former Mendip district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19935293J4081
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 362
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2001.
Slight
Honda C90 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 13 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200152FR65366
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on the A362 in Somerset, 25 October 1998
At the same spotRef 1998520123714
Slight
Lorry crash on the A362 in Somerset, 19 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198552FR01177
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B3098 in Somerset, 21 January 1999
At the same spotRef 1999520011215
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A362 in Somerset, 16 November 1994
At the same spotRef 19945294J4001
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A3098 in Somerset, 11 May 2022
33 m awayRef 2022520204648
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 19935293J4081 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 1993.