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Serious A358 crash in Somerset on 7 June 1997 at 11:35 involving a car

A car crashed on the A358 in Somerset at 11:35 on Saturday 7 June 1997. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
7 Jun 1997
Saturday, 11:35
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83248, longitude -2.95986, in the TA20 postcode district. The location was in the former South Somerset district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997520019763
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
358
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 141 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1997520019763 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.