A371 crash in Somerset on 23 July 2014 at 19:56 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a car were involved in a crash on the A371 in Somerset at 19:56 on Wednesday 23 July 2014. The 21-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2014
- Wednesday, 19:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25368, longitude -2.7487, in the BS27 postcode district. 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
- 2014520405159
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 371
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 February 1989.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A371 in Somerset, 27 February 1989
40 m awayRef 198952FW00279
Serious
Honda crash on the A371 in Somerset, 18 June 1991
47 m awayRef 19915291F0876
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A371 in Somerset, 16 January 2016
68 m awayRef 2016520602137
Serious
Car crash on the A371 in Somerset, 14 May 1987
90 m awayRef 198752FW00539
Slight
Van crash on the A371 in Somerset, 16 March 2025
103 m awayRef 2025520501251
Slight
Volvo crash on the A371 in Somerset, 4 July 2012
124 m awayRef 2012520204745
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2014520405159 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.