B3139 crash in Somerset on 18 April 2011 at 19:49 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Daewoo Lanos were involved in a crash on the B3139 in Somerset at 19:49 on Monday 18 April 2011. A 9-year-old female passenger in the Daewoo Lanos and a 9-year-old male passenger in the Daewoo Lanos were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2011
- Monday, 19:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Daewoo Lanos
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23645, longitude -2.57852, in the BA5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mendip Hills, Somerset, BA5 3EQ area accident hotspot. 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
- 2011520102352
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3139
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3135
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2012.
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 9 March 2012
At the same spotRef 2012520201716
Serious
Nissan X-Trail crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 9 February 2006
At the same spotRef 2006520021059
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 9 December 2003
At the same spotRef 2003521648369
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B3135 in Somerset, 12 June 2008
At the same spotRef 2008520807037
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 15 September 2010
At the same spotRef 2010520007540
Serious
Car crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 16 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198952FW01380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Lanos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Lanos)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daewoo Lanos)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2011520102352 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.