A30 crash in Somerset on 10 March 2015 at 21:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A30 in Somerset at 21:00 on Tuesday 10 March 2015. The 20-year-old male rider of the Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2015
- Tuesday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Yamaha WR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90076, longitude -2.75254, in the TA18 postcode district. 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
- 2015520502155
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3066
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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2018.
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A30 in Somerset, 20 January 2018
1 m awayRef 2018520801456
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A30 in Somerset, 26 July 2017
1 m awayRef 2017520706265
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A30 in Somerset, 25 March 2019
4 m awayRef 2019520904296
Serious
Nissan Prairie crash on the A30 in Somerset, 20 December 1990
5 m awayRef 19905290F1902
Slight
Austin Maxi crash on the A30 in Somerset, 24 July 1991
5 m awayRef 19915291F1091
Serious
Zontes ZT crash on the A30 in Somerset, 23 March 2023
6 m awayRef 2023520300613
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha WR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha WR 125)
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 2015520502155 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 2015.