A370 crash in North Somerset on 27 April 2014 at 00:05 involving a Vauxhall Vectra taxi
A Vauxhall Vectra taxi crashed on the A370 in North Somerset at 00:05 on Sunday 27 April 2014. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2014
- Sunday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39088, longitude -2.77705, in the BS49 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cleeve. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wrington, North Somerset, BS49 4NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014521402852
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 370
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 January 1998.
Serious
Rover 600 Series crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 29 January 1998
3 m awayRef 1998520010413
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 2 August 2014
5 m awayRef 2014521405730
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 20 September 2007
8 m awayRef 2007520711930
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 31 January 1982
11 m awayRef 198252JNC0105
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 18 March 2011
11 m awayRef 2011521101579
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 6 August 2002
12 m awayRef 2002520106216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2014521402852 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Somerset road accident statistics for 2014.