A39 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 5 February 1998 at 09:35 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset at 09:35 on Thursday 5 February 1998. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 1998
- Thursday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38591, longitude -2.44112, in the BA2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998520013030
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 December 1993.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 14 December 1993
At the same spotRef 19935293F4692
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 18 January 2011
20 m awayRef 2011521100412
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 13 September 2006
30 m awayRef 2006520111759
Slight
Toyota IQ crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 30 April 2011
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Slight
Royal Enfield Himalayan crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 16 December 2025
56 m awayRef 2025520000810
Serious
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 19 January 2017
58 m awayRef 2017521700950
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 1998520013030 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 1998.