Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA8 on 9 July 2018 at 13:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 13:00 on Monday 9 July 2018. The 54-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2018
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97938, longitude -2.36439, in the BA8 postcode district. The location was in the former South Somerset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018520807656
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 March 1995.
Serious
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 March 1995
42 m awayRef 19955295J0889
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A30 in Somerset, 2 March 2002
254 m awayRef 2002520330318
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Dorset, 16 January 2017
351 m awayRef 2017551700098
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on a C road in Dorset, 4 May 2000
354 m awayRef 2000550W02115
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Dorset, 3 June 1985
357 m awayRef 1985558510718
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 29 July 1998
371 m awayRef 1998520086224
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- 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
- 71 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018520807656 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.