A37 crash in Somerset on 18 April 2011 at 11:00 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Mazda 6 were involved in a crash on the A37 in Somerset at 11:00 on Monday 18 April 2011. The 42-year-old male driver of the Toyota Avensis and the 61-year-old male driver of the Mazda 6 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2011
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Mazda 6
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07572, longitude -2.62048, in the TA11 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
- 2011520102383
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 37
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3153
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A37 in Somerset, 28 October 2007
At the same spotRef 2007520713204
Slight
Volvo crash on the A37 in Somerset, 27 February 2010
At the same spotRef 2010520001900
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A37 in Somerset, 25 January 2011
At the same spotRef 2011520101048
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A37 in Somerset, 22 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007520709642
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A37 in Somerset, 23 August 2002
At the same spotRef 2002520113476
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A37 in Somerset, 28 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002520089389
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 6)
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 2011520102383 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.