Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA21 on 21 July 2013 at 17:15 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 crashed on an unclassified road in Somerset at 17:15 on Sunday 21 July 2013. The 53-year-old male driver and a 10-year-old female passenger were 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
- 21 Jul 2013
- Sunday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95722, longitude -3.20244, in the TA21 postcode district. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013520304778
- 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
- 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
- 33%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 67%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2019.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 8 January 2019
50 m awayRef 2019520900412
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 11 December 1989
78 m awayRef 198952GW02122
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 30 April 1996
86 m awayRef 19965296K5120
Slight
Yamaha DT 125 R crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 13 June 2013
132 m awayRef 2013520303740
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 March 1989
157 m awayRef 198952GW00338
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 September 1986
191 m awayRef 198652GW01529
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2013520304778 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.