B3224 crash in Somerset on 23 September 2018 at 12:10 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the B3224 in Somerset at 12:10 on Sunday 23 September 2018. The 22-year-old male driver, a 2-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2018
- Sunday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10158, longitude -3.294, in the TA4 postcode district. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018520901339
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3224
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 101 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2017.
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the B3224 in Somerset, 23 January 2017
101 m awayRef 2017520700768
Fatal
Proton Proton crash on the B3224 in Somerset, 14 April 1998
433 m awayRef 1998520036764
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3224 in Somerset, 5 May 1995
506 m awayRef 19955295K1613
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B3224 in Somerset, 26 September 2003
525 m awayRef 2003521336719
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3224 in Somerset, 4 November 1991
571 m awayRef 19915291G1844
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B3224 in Somerset, 27 July 2000
571 m awayRef 200052G957966
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018520901339 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.