A362 crash in Somerset on 13 February 2014 at 18:01 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio, a Peugeot 306 and a car were involved in a crash on the A362 in Somerset at 18:01 on Thursday 13 February 2014. The 51-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 306 and the 46-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 2014
- Thursday, 18:01
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Clio and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2343, longitude -2.33279, in the BA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Frome. It is one of the crashes that make up the Frome West, Somerset, BA11 3NL 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014520401658
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 362
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2020.
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the A362 in Somerset, 31 July 2020
At the same spotRef 2020520100574
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A362 in Somerset, 22 March 2015
3 m awayRef 2015520502782
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 13 July 2017
3 m awayRef 2017520705055
Slight
Van crash on the A362 in Somerset, 19 April 1989
6 m awayRef 198952FR00619
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A362 in Somerset, 1 June 2005
6 m awayRef 2005520071731
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A362 in Somerset, 9 September 2011
21 m awayRef 2011520105615
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 2014520401658 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.