A3088 crash in Somerset on 17 December 2014 at 08:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a BMW R 1200 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A3088 in Somerset at 08:00 on Wednesday 17 December 2014. The 51-year-old male rider of the BMW R 1200 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and BMW R 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93283, longitude -2.6599, in the BA20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Yeovil. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yeovil South, Somerset, BA20 2SQ 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
- 2014520500712
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3088
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2020.
Slight
BMW M1 crash on the A3088 in Somerset, 23 December 2020
7 m awayRef 2020520101367
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the A3088 in Somerset, 21 June 2005
21 m awayRef 2005520080853
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 December 2006
36 m awayRef 2006520155501
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A3088 in Somerset, 16 September 2014
70 m awayRef 2014520408731
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A3088 in Somerset, 28 July 2018
72 m awayRef 2018520900105
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A3088 in Somerset, 19 March 2019
72 m awayRef 2019520904216
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: BMW R 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 1,170 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (BMW R 1200)
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 2014520500712 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.