Unclassified road crash in North Somerset BS25 on 22 March 2017 at 17:05 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on an unclassified road in North Somerset at 17:05 on Wednesday 22 March 2017. The 69-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2017
- Wednesday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31199, longitude -2.84078, in the BS25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Winscombe and Sandford.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017521702445
- Council area
- North 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
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 12 December 2001
86 m awayRef 2001520174106
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 10 December 1994
86 m awayRef 19945294M4584
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 31 May 2018
139 m awayRef 2018521803754
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 31 January 1991
149 m awayRef 19915291J0130
Serious
Car crash on the A371 in North Somerset, 23 August 1989
207 m awayRef 198952JO01064
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 4 August 1996
208 m awayRef 19965296M3054
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017521702445 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 2017.