Serious A370 crash in North Somerset on 25 March 2005 at 02:20 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the A370 in North Somerset at 02:20 on Friday 25 March 2005. The 19-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Mar 2005
- Friday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39541, longitude -2.76953, in the BS49 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005520045098
- 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
- 370
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 December 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 12 December 1989
14 m awayRef 198952JC01533
Slight
Car crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 14 June 1981
20 m awayRef 198152JNC0632
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 26 May 2005
32 m awayRef 2005520069078
Slight
Car crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 5 April 1986
36 m awayRef 198652JC00391
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 3 February 2003
58 m awayRef 2003520020273
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 14 September 1995
64 m awayRef 19955295M3440
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 2005520045098 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 2005.