Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA3 on 17 July 2018 at 17:30 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 17:30 on Tuesday 17 July 2018. The 21-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2018
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2489, longitude -2.4801, in the BA3 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
- 2018520804978
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Stop sign
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198752FR01671
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 25 December 2014
55 m awayRef 2014520500868
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 June 2000
90 m awayRef 200052FR69019
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 9 December 2002
124 m awayRef 2002520168238
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 25 August 1996
212 m awayRef 19965296J2902
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 24 August 1995
212 m awayRef 19955295J2954
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 31 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018520804978 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.