A39 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 10 May 2018 at 18:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset at 18:00 on Thursday 10 May 2018. The 50-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2018
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37054, longitude -2.47815, in the BA2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521805347
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 39
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 May 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 1 May 1987
14 m awayRef 198752ER00523
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 7 May 2000
57 m awayRef 2000520055522
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 3 January 1979
58 m awayRef 197952FKR0062
Serious
Car crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 24 November 1985
83 m awayRef 198552ER01438
Slight
Bedford crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 13 January 1994
94 m awayRef 19945294F0149
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A39 in Bath and North East Somerset, 27 May 1996
94 m awayRef 19965296F2099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 50 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2018521805347 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 2018.