Serious A4174 crash in North Somerset on 5 July 2017 at 17:30 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4174 in North Somerset at 17:30 on Wednesday 5 July 2017. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A1 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42944, longitude -2.6353, in the BS3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017521705242
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4174
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2022.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4174 in North Somerset, 25 February 2022
12 m awayRef 2022522202448
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A4174 in North Somerset, 16 January 2019
51 m awayRef 2019521902883
Serious
Yamaha MT07 crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 3 November 2017
126 m awayRef 2017521707816
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 20 August 2025
148 m awayRef 2025522502148
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A4174 in North Somerset, 10 October 2017
259 m awayRef 2017521707381
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A4174 in North Somerset, 17 September 2024
298 m awayRef 2024522402904
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- 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
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017521705242 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.