B3168 crash in Somerset on 14 October 2004 at 22:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the B3168 in Somerset at 22:55 on Thursday 14 October 2004. The 18-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were 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
- 14 Oct 2004
- Thursday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95505, longitude -2.89621, in the TA19 postcode district. 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
- 2004520138088
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3168
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 44%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 56%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3168 in Somerset, 13 July 2014
2 m awayRef 2014520405417
Slight
New Holland crash on the B3168 in Somerset, 9 February 2007
10 m awayRef 2007520020303
Serious
Car crash on the B3168 in Somerset, 12 November 1989
14 m awayRef 198952FI01711
Serious
MAN crash on the B3168 in Somerset, 25 February 1993
54 m awayRef 19935293K0610
Slight
Car crash on the B3168 in Somerset, 26 December 1998
54 m awayRef 1998520001305
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B3168 in Somerset, 3 June 2002
54 m awayRef 2002520762528
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2004520138088 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.