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A3088 crash in Somerset on 14 August 1998 at 15:50 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A3088 in Somerset at 15:50 on Friday 14 August 1998. The 42-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
14 Aug 1998
Friday, 15:50
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96716, longitude -2.7419, in the BA22 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
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998520094064
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
3088
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
303

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 9 September 1998.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn left
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    42 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 42, 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 1998520094064 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.