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Serious A38 crash in Somerset on 27 December 2003 at 10:00 involving a Toyota Starlet

A Toyota Starlet hit a pedestrian on the A38 in Somerset at 10:00 on Saturday 27 December 2003. A 75-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
27 Dec 2003
Saturday, 10:00
Vehicles
1
Toyota Starlet
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97729, longitude -3.22911, in the TA21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wellington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wellington, Somerset, TA21 8LY area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2003521741909
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
38
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 April 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Toyota Starlet

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    62 years
    Engine capacity
    1,332 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Starlet)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 2003521741909 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 2003.