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A39 crash in Somerset on 22 December 1998 at 19:05 involving a Volvo 340

A Volvo 340 crashed on the A39 in Somerset at 19:05 on Tuesday 22 December 1998. A 29-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Dec 1998
Tuesday, 19:05
Vehicles
1
Volvo 340
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2596, longitude -2.84548, in the BS26 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998520107064
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
39
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
40 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
Unclassified

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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 361 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 1999.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 340

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    1,397 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 340)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 1998520107064 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.