Fatal unclassified road crash in Somerset on 24 December 1994 at 09:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 09:15 on Saturday 24 December 1994. An 80-year-old pedestrian was killed. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Fatal
Date: 24 Dec 1994; Saturday, 09:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 killed

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19945294FAT18
Council area: Somerset
Police force: Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph
Trunk road: Non-trunk road

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
First point of impact
Front

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Fatal
Aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's nearside

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 19945294FAT18 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 1994.