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A39 crash in Somerset on 18 June 1996 at 16:35 involving a Rover 600 Series

A Rover 600 Series hit a pedestrian on the A39 in Somerset at 16:35 on Tuesday 18 June 1996. A 71-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Jun 1996
Tuesday, 16:35
Vehicles
1
Rover 600 Series
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15641, longitude -2.93511, in the TA7 postcode district. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19965296L2033
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
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    47 years
    Engine capacity
    1,997 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)

    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 19965296L2033 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 1996.