B3128 crash in North Somerset on 4 November 2002 at 00:04 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B3128 in North Somerset at 00:04 on Monday 4 November 2002. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2002
- Monday, 00:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44623, longitude -2.75298, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002520147907
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 23 May 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 23 May 2007
At the same spotRef 2007520707270
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 19 October 2001
10 m awayRef 2001520141801
Serious
Car crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 8 July 2002
10 m awayRef 2002520094285
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 13 October 2004
10 m awayRef 2004520136344
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 16 April 2004
10 m awayRef 2004520050369
Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B3128 in North Somerset, 4 August 1999
14 m awayRef 1999520095656
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2002520147907 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.