Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA16 on 5 December 2012 at 16:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 16:20 on Wednesday 5 December 2012. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 5 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12322, longitude -2.75472, in the BA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Street. It is one of the crashes that make up the Street, Somerset, BA16 0LW 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
- 2012520208544
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2005.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 19 June 2005
14 m awayRef 2005520085391
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A39 in Somerset, 19 October 2004
22 m awayRef 2004520140988
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 August 1987
22 m awayRef 198752FG00905
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A39 in Somerset, 1 July 2004
36 m awayRef 2004520088145
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 14 May 1984
36 m awayRef 198452FRG0713
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 21 December 2002
36 m awayRef 200252DUP8613
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012520208544 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.