A369 crash in North Somerset on 7 April 2003 at 07:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A369 in North Somerset at 07:35 on Monday 7 April 2003. The 31-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2003
- Monday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45656, longitude -2.64923, in the BS8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Ashton, North Somerset, BS8 3PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003520049409
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 369
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1996.
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 28 April 1996
At the same spotRef 19965296M1596
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 21 May 1981
10 m awayRef 198152JNA0566
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 4 March 2000
14 m awayRef 2000520028860
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 25 August 2002
14 m awayRef 2002520112011
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 31 October 2003
22 m awayRef 2003520146820
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 25 July 1992
32 m awayRef 19925292M1513
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2003520049409 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 2003.