Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA22 on 15 December 2017 at 07:50 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 07:50 on Friday 15 December 2017. A 68-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2017
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97211, longitude -2.66988, in the BA22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brympton, Somerset, BA22 8RZ area accident hotspot. 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
- 2017520801005
- 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
- 40 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
- 40%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 60%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2025.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A37 in Somerset, 5 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025520501814
Serious
Volvo crash on the A37 in Somerset, 5 December 1990
14 m awayRef 19905290F1824
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on the A37 in Somerset, 9 March 1991
23 m awayRef 19915291F0360
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the A37 in Somerset, 6 October 1990
30 m awayRef 19905290F1472
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A37 in Somerset, 30 July 2014
36 m awayRef 2014520408144
Serious
Van crash on the A37 in Somerset, 29 May 1982
38 m awayRef 198252FYE0694
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2017520801005 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.