Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA5 on 4 April 2000 at 12:45 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 crashed on an unclassified road in Somerset at 12:45 on Tuesday 4 April 2000. The 50-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2000
- Tuesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 309
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19105, longitude -2.57523, in the BA5 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
- 200052FS42943
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2016.
Slight
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Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 8 April 2003
64 m awayRef 2003520506879
Serious
Renault crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 July 1997
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 2 December 2006
166 m awayRef 2006520145611
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A371 in Somerset, 22 December 1995
224 m awayRef 19955295J0390
Serious
Kawasaki ZX crash on the A371 in Somerset, 6 September 2025
259 m awayRef 2025520600876
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 200052FS42943 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.