Serious B3128 crash in North Somerset on 6 September 2002 at 08:10 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on the B3128 in North Somerset at 08:10 on Friday 6 September 2002. The 50-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Sep 2002
- Friday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44614, longitude -2.75341, in the BS48 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Ashton, North Somerset, BS48 1PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002520119563
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3128
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2004.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 13 September 2004
At the same spotRef 2004520119733
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 25 September 2004
10 m awayRef 2004520124885
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 13 October 2002
10 m awayRef 2002520147800
Slight
Car crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 8 August 2004
10 m awayRef 2004520101095
Slight
Car crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 15 September 2005
10 m awayRef 2005520126021
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 14 May 2002
10 m awayRef 2002520066443
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 2002520119563 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Somerset road accident statistics for 2002.