A38 crash in North Somerset on 7 December 2003 at 23:15 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A38 in North Somerset at 23:15 on Sunday 7 December 2003. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2003
- Sunday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31668, longitude -2.81643, in the BS25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003520165476
- 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
- 38
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 July 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 23 July 1983
At the same spotRef 198352JWI0819
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 15 January 2005
10 m awayRef 2005520009423
Fatal
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 5 June 2017
25 m awayRef 2017521703741
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 19 July 1979
30 m awayRef 197952LWI0788
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 4 December 1993
30 m awayRef 19935293M4510
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 28 October 1994
30 m awayRef 19945294M3940
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2003520165476 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.