A378 crash in Somerset on 17 January 2014 at 18:45 involving a Ford C-Max
A Ford C-Max and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A378 in Somerset at 18:45 on Friday 17 January 2014. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2014
- Friday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford C-Max and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.042, longitude -2.82436, in the TA10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Langport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Curry Rivel & Langport, Somerset, TA10 9RY 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
- 2014520401338
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 378
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 372
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 September 2024.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A372 in Somerset, 14 September 2024
4 m awayRef 2024520500440
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A372 in Somerset, 4 October 2012
5 m awayRef 2012520206641
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A372 in Somerset, 21 December 2018
5 m awayRef 2018520808602
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 28 November 1981
11 m awayRef 198152FYI1753
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 24 November 1981
11 m awayRef 198152FYC1743
Slight
Car crash on the A372 in Somerset, 13 December 1988
11 m awayRef 198852FO01881
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2014520401338 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 2014.