Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA8 on 8 May 2018 at 12:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 12:05 on Tuesday 8 May 2018. A 64-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2018
- Tuesday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23644, longitude -2.99518, in the TA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnham-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burnham on Sea North, Somerset, TA8 1EL area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018520804158
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3139
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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2014.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 7 April 2014
2 m awayRef 2014520402688
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 28 November 2018
2 m awayRef 2018520808001
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 28 August 2003
5 m awayRef 2003521135909
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 25 February 1992
5 m awayRef 19925292L0270
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 6 May 2004
11 m awayRef 2004520059030
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 18 September 2006
11 m awayRef 2006520112038
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- 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
- 41 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2018520804158 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.