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Serious unclassified road crash in Somerset BA11 on 29 November 1997 at 18:45 involving a Rover 400 Series

A Rover 400 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 18:45 on Saturday 29 November 1997. A 4-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Nov 1997
Saturday, 18:45
Vehicles
1
Rover 400 Series
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22446, longitude -2.31929, in the BA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Frome. The location was in the former Mendip district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997520008503
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
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Other object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years
    Engine capacity
    1,396 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1997520008503 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 1997.