Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA24 on 28 December 1994 at 21:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 21:10 on Wednesday 28 December 1994. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1994
- Wednesday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19766, longitude -3.47122, in the TA24 postcode district. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19945294K4335
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 2004.
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in Somerset, 14 October 1985
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the A39 in Somerset, 12 September 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19945294K4335 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.