B3139 crash in Somerset on 24 December 2014 at 21:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the B3139 in Somerset at 21:20 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. A 16-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21805, longitude -2.9458, in the TA9 postcode district. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014520500754
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3139
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 52 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1996.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 19 November 1996
52 m awayRef 19965296L4017
Fatal
Car crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 21 January 1981
52 m awayRef 198152GBU0076
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 27 April 2006
142 m awayRef 2006520050806
Slight
Car crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 13 July 1986
146 m awayRef 198652GU01125
Slight
Car crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 25 May 1986
151 m awayRef 198652GU00795
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 6 December 2005
170 m awayRef 2005520161934
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2014520500754 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.