Unclassified road crash in North Somerset BS20 on 24 October 2018 at 19:45 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset at 19:45 on Wednesday 24 October 2018. The 23-year-old female rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Peugeot Speedfight
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48439, longitude -2.77125, in the BS20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Portishead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Portishead North, North Somerset, BS20 6EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521807206
- Council area
- North 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 2007.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 28 March 2007
4 m awayRef 2007520041076
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 20 December 2000
4 m awayRef 2000520163597
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 24 October 1980
7 m awayRef 198052JNP1284
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 3 April 1995
11 m awayRef 19955295M1215
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 9 January 2024
12 m awayRef 2024522401113
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 23 November 1989
13 m awayRef 198952JP01484
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Peugeot Speedfight)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018521807206 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Somerset road accident statistics for 2018.