A371 crash in Somerset on 28 January 2018 at 10:56 involving a Jaguar XF Series
A car and a Jaguar XF Series were involved in a crash on the A371 in Somerset at 10:56 on Sunday 28 January 2018. A 5-year-old female passenger in the Jaguar XF Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2018
- Sunday, 10:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Jaguar XF Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21377, longitude -2.67745, in the BA5 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018520801530
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 371
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 August 2021.
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A371 in Somerset, 21 August 2021
11 m awayRef 2021520104502
Slight
Car crash on the A371 in Somerset, 22 March 1988
18 m awayRef 198852FW00420
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A371 in Somerset, 26 October 2010
18 m awayRef 2010520008625
Slight
Car crash on the A371 in Somerset, 4 January 1979
28 m awayRef 197952GWE0050
Serious
Car crash on the A371 in Somerset, 2 April 1987
29 m awayRef 198752FW00381
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A371 in Somerset, 3 September 2023
57 m awayRef 2023520301709
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XF Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar XF Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018520801530 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 2018.