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A39 crash in Somerset on 19 February 1993 at 00:01 involving a Rover 400 Series

A Rover 400 Series crashed on the A39 in Somerset at 00:01 on Friday 19 February 1993. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
19 Feb 1993
Friday, 00:01
Vehicles
1
Rover 400 Series
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12354, longitude -2.75583, in the BA16 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
19935293L0535
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
39
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
Dark, lighting unknown
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 18 July 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Other object
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    1,590 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)

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 19935293L0535 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.