A39 crash in Somerset on 13 June 2005 at 14:30 involving a Renault Kangoo
A Renault Kangoo and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A39 in Somerset at 14:30 on Monday 13 June 2005. An 80-year-old female passenger in the Renault Kangoo was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2005
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Kangoo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18988, longitude -2.67596, in the BA5 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005520076554
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2009.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 9 April 2009
14 m awayRef 2009520903210
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 20 April 1992
20 m awayRef 19925292L0644
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A39 in Somerset, 19 December 2006
42 m awayRef 2006520155837
Slight
Bus crash on the A39 in Somerset, 3 August 2003
45 m awayRef 2003521005879
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A39 in Somerset, 28 April 2003
45 m awayRef 2003520581659
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 15 February 1979
50 m awayRef 197952GWE0141
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Kangoo)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2005520076554 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 2005.