A38 crash in Somerset on 30 April 2013 at 09:50 involving a Peugeot 508
A Peugeot 508, a Peugeot 107 and a car were involved in a crash on the A38 in Somerset at 09:50 on Tuesday 30 April 2013. The 68-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 107 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
- 30 Apr 2013
- Tuesday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 508 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11986, longitude -2.9988, in the TA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgwater. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgwater South, Somerset, TA6 6EP area accident hotspot. 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
- 2013520303144
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 2019.
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A38 in Somerset, 17 October 2019
1 m awayRef 2019520906440
Serious
Bus crash on the A38 in Somerset, 18 January 1988
3 m awayRef 198852GB00100
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Somerset, 11 May 1990
3 m awayRef 19905290G0796
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Somerset, 5 November 2005
3 m awayRef 2005520145751
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 2 December 2019
4 m awayRef 2019520000371
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A38 in Somerset, 18 July 2021
6 m awayRef 2021520103736
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 508
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
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 2013520303144 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.