Unclassified road crash in Somerset BS24 on 11 September 2012 at 19:00 involving a Lexus GS300
A motorcycle and a Lexus GS300 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 19:00 on Tuesday 11 September 2012. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2012
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Lexus GS300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28223, longitude -2.97082, in the BS24 postcode district. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012520205916
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 33%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 67%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 1986.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 29 June 1986
57 m awayRef 198652GU00996
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 20 July 1980
192 m awayRef 198052GBU1028
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 7 September 2001
270 m awayRef 2001521208557
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 15 April 2019
381 m awayRef 2019520905461
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Lexus GS300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2012520205916 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 2012.