B3081 crash in Somerset on 12 November 2006 at 22:00 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the B3081 in Somerset at 22:00 on Sunday 12 November 2006. 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
- 12 Nov 2006
- Sunday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12579, longitude -2.46982, in the BA10 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
- 2006520137481
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3081
- 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
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3081 in Somerset, 26 July 2004
30 m awayRef 2004520096636
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3081 in Somerset, 1 April 2011
294 m awayRef 2011520102032
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B3081 in Somerset, 5 June 2010
356 m awayRef 2010520004724
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3081 in Somerset, 15 November 2000
403 m awayRef 2000521454596
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3081 in Somerset, 21 September 1990
480 m awayRef 19905290F1413
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3081 in Somerset, 7 August 1983
520 m awayRef 198352FRW2073
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- 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 2006520137481 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.