Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA2 on 2 January 2016 at 12:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 12:20 on Saturday 2 January 2016. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 2016
- Saturday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02882, longitude -3.05557, in the TA2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Monkton & North Curry, Somerset, TA2 8DP area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016520601104
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 12 May 1980
72 m awayRef 198052GTO0685
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 June 1983
134 m awayRef 198352GTO0835
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 31 August 2003
139 m awayRef 2003521200499
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 August 2025
188 m awayRef 2025520502140
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the M5 in Somerset, 14 July 1993
261 m awayRef 19935293K2142
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M5 in Somerset, 20 December 2000
264 m awayRef 2000521654336
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016520601104 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 2016.