A3098 crash in Somerset on 10 November 2011 at 13:30 involving a Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle
A Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A3098 in Somerset at 13:30 on Thursday 10 November 2011. The 20-year-old male rider of the Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2011
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Qingqi QM 125 GY and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23529, longitude -2.27957, in the BA11 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
- 2011520107359
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3098
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A3098 in Somerset, 19 August 2010
10 m awayRef 2010520006878
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A3098 in Somerset, 20 June 2007
10 m awayRef 2007520708143
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A3098 in Somerset, 11 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025520600889
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3098 in Somerset, 26 August 2020
13 m awayRef 2020520003593
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A3098 in Somerset, 19 March 2012
14 m awayRef 2012520201729
Slight
Car crash on the A3098 in Somerset, 20 December 1989
14 m awayRef 198952FR01934
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Qingqi QM 125 GY
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Qingqi QM 125 GY)
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 2011520107359 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.