A303 crash in Somerset on 15 February 2011 at 10:30 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A car and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A303 in Somerset at 10:30 on Tuesday 15 February 2011. The 25-year-old female driver of the car and a 30-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2011
- Tuesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93342, longitude -2.93607, in the TA19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9PT area accident hotspot. 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
- 2011520100959
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3168
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A303 in Somerset, 6 August 2014
10 m awayRef 2014520405371
Serious
Kawasaki ER650 crash on the A303 in Somerset, 5 June 2013
15 m awayRef 2013520304216
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A303 in Somerset, 22 March 2019
19 m awayRef 2019520902006
Slight
Scania crash on the A303 in Somerset, 18 September 2002
20 m awayRef 2002521246648
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the A303 in Somerset, 8 September 2014
22 m awayRef 2014520408710
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A303 in Somerset, 9 May 1998
22 m awayRef 1998520050344
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2011520100959 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.