Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA5 on 21 November 2010 at 00:55 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Somerset at 00:55 on Sunday 21 November 2010. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2010
- Sunday, 00:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21323, longitude -2.61631, in the BA5 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
- 2010520009231
- 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
- 30 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 May 1987.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 14 May 1987
51 m awayRef 198752FW00538
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 March 1984
150 m awayRef 198452FRW0370
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 22 June 2004
234 m awayRef 2004520082058
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 2 December 1999
250 m awayRef 1999520151386
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 25 July 2004
331 m awayRef 2004520097896
Fatal
Car crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 28 February 1981
344 m awayRef 198152FRW0261
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2010520009231 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 2010.