A30 crash in Somerset on 11 May 2009 at 17:45 involving a Rover 45
A Rover 45 and a car were involved in a crash on the A30 in Somerset at 17:45 on Monday 11 May 2009. The 43-year-old female driver of the Rover 45 and the 58-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 May 2009
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 45 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88633, longitude -2.84997, in the TA17 postcode district. The location was in the former South Somerset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009520904341
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 April 1998.
Serious
David Brown crash on the A30 in Somerset, 28 April 1998
10 m awayRef 1998520051044
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A30 in Somerset, 13 July 2009
10 m awayRef 2009520906212
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Somerset, 4 March 2009
10 m awayRef 2009520902156
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A30 in Somerset, 7 October 1997
10 m awayRef 1997520096603
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A30 in Somerset, 30 December 2018
12 m awayRef 2018520902642
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 45)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2009520904341 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.