Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA7 on 7 July 2004 at 14:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 14:40 on Wednesday 7 July 2004. The 25-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2004
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08916, longitude -2.51956, in the BA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Castle Cary. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7AG area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Somerset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004520087343
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3152
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 30 August 1980
41 m awayRef 198052FYW1343
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BMW 3 Series crash on the B3152 in Somerset, 26 October 2025
87 m awayRef 2025520600460
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the B3152 in Somerset, 6 January 2005
113 m awayRef 2005520004863
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 9 October 1983
125 m awayRef 198352FYW2466
Slight
Car crash on the B3182 in Somerset, 5 April 1994
125 m awayRef 19945294J1141
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 31 October 2001
125 m awayRef 2001521488227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2004520087343 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 2004.