Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA4 on 9 February 2009 at 00:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 00:05 on Monday 9 February 2009. The 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2009
- Monday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18798, longitude -2.47803, in the BA4 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
- 2009520901345
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 110 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 1994.
Slight
Lada Riva crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 19 February 1994
110 m awayRef 19945294J0650
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A361 in Somerset, 13 June 2001
190 m awayRef 200152FS79511
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 27 March 1985
210 m awayRef 198552FS00426
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 April 1993
210 m awayRef 19935293J1002
Slight
Lorry crash on the A361 in Somerset, 18 July 1979
210 m awayRef 197952GFS0448
Serious
Lorry crash on the A361 in Somerset, 17 May 1982
210 m awayRef 198252FRW0659
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2009520901345 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 2009.