Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA6 on 17 December 2018 at 00:01 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 00:01 on Monday 17 December 2018. The 70-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2018
- Monday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11602, longitude -3.01232, in the TA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgwater. 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
- 2018520808425
- 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
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 15 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198852GB01308
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 May 1981
44 m awayRef 198152FYE0533
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 2 May 1981
44 m awayRef 198152GBR0639
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B3139 in Somerset, 10 May 1981
44 m awayRef 198152GBC0686
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 5 May 1981
44 m awayRef 198152GBR0646
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 May 1981
44 m awayRef 198152GTW0644
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
- 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 2018520808425 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.