B3115 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 31 October 2008 at 23:59 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset at 23:59 on Friday 31 October 2008. The 17-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2008
- Friday, 23:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33945, longitude -2.42089, in the BA2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008520811486
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3115
- 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
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 44%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 56%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2009.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 17 February 2009
36 m awayRef 2009520901712
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 7 January 2018
57 m awayRef 2018521801287
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 26 November 2010
67 m awayRef 2010521009340
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 50 crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 9 January 1997
73 m awayRef 1997520003944
Serious
Car crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 13 September 1981
85 m awayRef 198152EBC1101
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 31 January 1999
99 m awayRef 1999520014907
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2008520811486 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.