A369 crash in North Somerset on 26 January 1995 at 13:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A369 in North Somerset at 13:25 on Thursday 26 January 1995. The 67-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 51-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1995
- Thursday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46041, longitude -2.66063, in the BS8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19955295M0318
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 369
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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 22 July 2002.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 22 July 2002
At the same spotRef 2002520096636
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 7 October 1998
At the same spotRef 1998520115771
Serious
Car crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 2 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198952JN00967
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 13 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198952JP00213
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 9 May 2024
8 m awayRef 2024522401770
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 21 January 1997
10 m awayRef 1997520013175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 19955295M0318 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Somerset road accident statistics for 1995.