A368 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 22 January 2008 at 15:40 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset at 15:40 on Tuesday 22 January 2008. A 60-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35418, longitude -2.53519, in the BS39 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008520801960
- 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2004.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 2 March 2004
20 m awayRef 2004520030091
Slight
KTM 125 Duke crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 16 December 2024
22 m awayRef 2024520000141
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 18 August 1989
36 m awayRef 198952ER01083
Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 18 October 1990
36 m awayRef 19905290E4081
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 28 October 1997
36 m awayRef 1997520095274
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A368 in Bath and North East Somerset, 4 October 1996
42 m awayRef 19965296F4210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- 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 2008520801960 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 2008.