Skip to main content
CrashStats

Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA6 on 22 August 2017 at 14:25 involving a lorry

A lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 14:25 on Tuesday 22 August 2017. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Aug 2017
Tuesday, 14:25
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14687, longitude -2.7178, in the BA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glastonbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9QR area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Mendip district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2017520705614
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street
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
10%
Estimated chance it was slight
90%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Left-hand drive
    No

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Home area deprivation
    40 to 50% most 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 2017520705614 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 2017.