A368 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 3 August 2005 at 09:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset at 09:35 on Wednesday 3 August 2005. The 83-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2005
- Wednesday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33683, longitude -2.58954, in the BS39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bath and North East Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005520100161
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 368
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 22 August 2007
10 m awayRef 2007520710706
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the A368 in North Somerset, 16 September 1995
36 m awayRef 19955295M3394
Slight
Kia Pride crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 4 October 2003
54 m awayRef 2003520129399
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 8 July 2021
59 m awayRef 2021522103296
Slight
Car crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 18 October 1989
73 m awayRef 198952EK01386
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 5 July 1981
94 m awayRef 198152BRO0813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- 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
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2005520100161 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 2005.