Serious B3170 crash in Somerset on 25 October 2011 at 08:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the B3170 in Somerset at 08:15 on Tuesday 25 October 2011. The 22-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 306 was seriously injured and the 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Oct 2011
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94917, longitude -3.09014, in the TA3 postcode district. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011520106705
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3170
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2022.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B3170 in Somerset, 10 September 2022
9 m awayRef 202252000D492
Slight
Car crash on the B3170 in Somerset, 4 September 1988
22 m awayRef 198852GO01590
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3170 in Somerset, 15 October 2025
72 m awayRef 2025520600254
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 14 January 1980
81 m awayRef 198052FRS0065
Slight
Car crash on the B3170 in Somerset, 19 January 1980
81 m awayRef 198052GTO0055
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 January 1980
81 m awayRef 198052GBC0068
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
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 2011520106705 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.