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A371 crash in Somerset on 9 December 1998 at 23:28 involving a Peugeot 405

A Peugeot 405 crashed on the A371 in Somerset at 23:28 on Wednesday 9 December 1998. The 54-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
9 Dec 1998
Wednesday, 23:28
Vehicles
1
Peugeot 405
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12574, longitude -2.51723, in the BA4 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
1998520147702
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
371
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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, no street lighting
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 19 May 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    54 years
    Engine capacity
    1,905 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)

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 1998520147702 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.