A38 crash in North Somerset on 17 June 2015 at 12:40 involving a Toyota Landcruiser
A car and a Toyota Landcruiser were involved in a crash on the A38 in North Somerset at 12:40 on Wednesday 17 June 2015. The 41-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 2015
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota Landcruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38766, longitude -2.70049, in the BS40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Downside. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winford, North Somerset, BS40 9UR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015521504786
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 4 May 2014
1 m awayRef 2014521403139
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 6 July 2015
2 m awayRef 2015521505406
Serious
Volkswagen Touran crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 11 August 2018
2 m awayRef 2018521806319
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 24 April 1996
6 m awayRef 19965296M1546
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 7 June 2004
6 m awayRef 2004520071773
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A38 in North Somerset, 10 April 2005
6 m awayRef 2005520046621
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,378 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015521504786 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 2015.