A3065 crash in Somerset on 8 October 2013 at 09:00 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Honda CBR125R motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A3065 in Somerset at 09:00 on Tuesday 8 October 2013. The 27-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio and the 17-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR125R motorcycle were 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
- 8 Oct 2013
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Honda CBR125R
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02107, longitude -3.13172, in the TA1 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
- 2013520307973
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3065
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A3065 in Somerset, 5 November 2007
2 m awayRef 2007520713712
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 March 1986
2 m awayRef 198652GT00387
Slight
Car crash on the A3065 in Somerset, 7 August 1988
2 m awayRef 198852GT01263
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A3065 in Somerset, 3 September 2007
2 m awayRef 2007520711424
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A3065 in Somerset, 9 October 2015
4 m awayRef 2015520507492
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A3065 in Somerset, 1 July 2016
4 m awayRef 2016520605410
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR125R)
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 2013520307973 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.