A39 crash in Somerset on 5 June 2006 at 16:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A39 in Somerset at 16:55 on Monday 5 June 2006. The 26-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2006
- Monday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18889, longitude -2.67694, 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
- 2006520066541
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in Somerset, 31 March 2015
7 m awayRef 2015520502601
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 11 September 1987
36 m awayRef 198752FW01092
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A39 in Somerset, 25 September 2010
42 m awayRef 2010520007729
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A39 in Somerset, 20 July 2006
42 m awayRef 2006520088064
Slight
Honda crash on the A39 in Somerset, 14 September 2012
72 m awayRef 2012520206240
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A39 in Somerset, 1 December 2015
74 m awayRef 2015520508985
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2006520066541 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 2006.