A39 crash in Somerset on 29 January 2000 at 04:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A39 in Somerset at 04:30 on Saturday 29 January 2000. The 19-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2000
- Saturday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12337, longitude -2.77301, in the BA16 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
- 200052FT14745
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2019.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A39 in Somerset, 16 August 2019
33 m awayRef 2019520000830
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A39 in Somerset, 9 November 2020
34 m awayRef 2020520103337
Serious
Van crash on the A39 in Somerset, 1 December 2013
34 m awayRef 2013520308262
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A39 in Somerset, 12 March 2004
42 m awayRef 2004520036056
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A39 in Somerset, 13 August 2007
67 m awayRef 2007520710336
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 18 October 2011
73 m awayRef 2011520106654
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200052FT14745 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.