Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA6 on 22 July 2018 at 11:57 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 11:57 on Sunday 22 July 2018. A 52-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo 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
- 22 Jul 2018
- Sunday, 11:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16029, longitude -2.74574, in the BA6 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
- 2018520808334
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3151
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3151 in Somerset, 24 March 2014
2 m awayRef 2014520402094
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3151 in Somerset, 7 December 2022
2 m awayRef 2022520300377
Fatal
Toyota Starlet crash on the B3151 in Somerset, 16 June 2004
14 m awayRef 2004520076716
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 27 September 1988
22 m awayRef 198852FG01399
Serious
Car crash on the B3151 in Somerset, 22 December 1989
22 m awayRef 198952FG01975
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the B3151 in Somerset, 28 July 2013
33 m awayRef 2013520305104
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018520808334 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.