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Serious A37 crash in Somerset on 25 July 1998 at 03:05 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry

An Iveco-Ford lorry hit a pedestrian on the A37 in Somerset at 03:05 on Saturday 25 July 1998. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
25 Jul 1998
Saturday, 03:05
Vehicles
1
Iveco-Ford
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24521, longitude -2.54292, in the BA3 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998520086177
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
37
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2014.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Iveco-Ford)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 1998520086177 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 1998.