A371 crash in Somerset on 10 August 2000 at 19:05 involving a Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle
A Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle and a Land Rover Range Rover were involved in a crash on the A371 in Somerset at 19:05 on Thursday 10 August 2000. The 31-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR1100XX motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2000
- Thursday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR1100XX and Land Rover Range Rover
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2575, longitude -2.75089, in the BS27 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
- 200052FN99341
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2010.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 21 December 2010
63 m awayRef 2010520100611
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A371 in Somerset, 20 November 1992
100 m awayRef 19925292L3334
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 12 July 1979
100 m awayRef 197952GWE0453
Serious
Car crash on the A371 in Somerset, 7 June 1979
100 m awayRef 197952GWE0373
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A371 in Somerset, 27 September 1997
100 m awayRef 1997520034863
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A371 in Somerset, 6 June 2007
102 m awayRef 2007520707643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR1100XX
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,137 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR1100XX)
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 200052FN99341 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 2000.