A39 crash in Somerset on 6 November 2015 at 15:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A39 in Somerset at 15:00 on Friday 6 November 2015. The 53-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2015
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14884, longitude -2.96345, in the TA7 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
- 2015520508240
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1998.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A39 in Somerset, 1 February 1998
17 m awayRef 1998520007444
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A39 in Somerset, 16 September 2002
28 m awayRef 2002521230488
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A39 in Somerset, 18 November 2012
36 m awayRef 2012520208152
Serious
Gilera crash on the A39 in Somerset, 6 May 2004
42 m awayRef 2004520060747
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 29 September 1999
84 m awayRef 1999520119715
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A39 in Somerset, 4 August 2011
94 m awayRef 2011520105264
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015520508240 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.