Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA6 on 29 November 1998 at 22:25 involving an Austin Maestro
An Austin Maestro and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 22:25 on Sunday 29 November 1998. The 20-year-old female driver of the Austin Maestro was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 1998
- Sunday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Maestro and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13898, longitude -2.97764, in the TA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgwater. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998520143694
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 8 December 2013
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Slight
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85 m awayRef 2006520105121
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 February 2007
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Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 30 July 2016
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Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 28 January 2001
100 m awayRef 200152G157257
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 12 August 2019
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Maestro)
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 1998520143694 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.