Serious B3134 crash in North Somerset on 7 November 2018 at 15:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the B3134 in North Somerset at 15:20 on Wednesday 7 November 2018. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Nov 2018
- Wednesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32721, longitude -2.75308, in the BS40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521902069
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3134
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2007.
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the B3134 in North Somerset, 24 January 2007
29 m awayRef 2007520013145
Slight
Car crash on the B3134 in North Somerset, 18 March 2009
31 m awayRef 2009520902762
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3134 in North Somerset, 23 August 2015
36 m awayRef 2015521508799
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3134 in North Somerset, 6 November 2022
36 m awayRef 2022522300273
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 23 August 2020
135 m awayRef 2020522100712
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on the B3134 in North Somerset, 14 November 1993
151 m awayRef 19935293M4214
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2018521902069 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.