A359 crash in Somerset on 21 April 2013 at 07:20 involving a Jaguar X Type
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2013
- Sunday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar X Type
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95675, longitude -2.6337, in the BA21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Yeovil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yeovil Central, Somerset, BA21 4PN area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Somerset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013520302588
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 359
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 2014.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A359 in Somerset, 22 July 2014
1 m awayRef 2014520405114
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A359 in Somerset, 22 May 2004
8 m awayRef 2004520065838
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A359 in Somerset, 28 May 2014
17 m awayRef 2014520403547
Slight
Car crash on the A359 in Somerset, 24 January 2015
21 m awayRef 2015520500687
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A359 in Somerset, 22 July 1995
24 m awayRef 19955295J2537
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 2 March 2002
24 m awayRef 2002520327278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar X Type)
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 2013520302588 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 2013.