A359 crash in Somerset on 21 January 2011 at 21:38 involving a Ford Mondeo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2011
- Friday, 21:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01667, longitude -2.57834, in the BA22 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
- 2011520100729
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 359
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A359 in Somerset, 22 November 2015
22 m awayRef 2015520600362
Slight
Car crash on the A359 in Somerset, 25 October 2005
50 m awayRef 2005520150525
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A359 in Somerset, 23 March 2007
71 m awayRef 2007520040274
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A359 in Somerset, 20 November 2011
100 m awayRef 2011520107431
Slight
Car crash on the A359 in Somerset, 25 January 1990
112 m awayRef 199052FN00139
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A359 in Somerset, 21 December 2001
114 m awayRef 2001521799227
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2011520100729 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 2011.