Serious B3109 crash in Somerset on 12 December 2013 at 11:33 involving a Jaguar S Type
A Jaguar S Type crashed on the B3109 in Somerset at 11:33 on Thursday 12 December 2013. A 32-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 11:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar S Type
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2894, longitude -2.27153, in the BA11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Frome North, Somerset, BA11 6PR 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013520308805
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3109
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B3109 in Somerset, 16 July 1989
15 m awayRef 198952FR01065
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the B3109 in Somerset, 1 December 2007
56 m awayRef 2007520714952
Slight
Car crash on the B3109 in Somerset, 22 January 2009
61 m awayRef 2009520900834
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3109 in Somerset, 13 November 2009
78 m awayRef 2009520910555
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the B3109 in Somerset, 8 March 1999
121 m awayRef 1999520030732
Slight
Renault Fuego crash on the B3109 in Somerset, 20 September 1991
131 m awayRef 19915291F1393
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar S Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,720 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar S Type)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar S Type)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2013520308805 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.