Unclassified road crash in North Somerset BS49 on 18 December 2018 at 15:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Somerset at 15:35 on Tuesday 18 December 2018. An 18-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2018
- Tuesday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38681, longitude -2.78366, in the BS49 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cleeve. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wrington, North Somerset, BS49 4NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521902588
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 1979.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 22 March 1979
15 m awayRef 197952LNC0276
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 15 October 2007
17 m awayRef 2007520713715
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 12 February 1999
29 m awayRef 1999520020974
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 9 August 1985
29 m awayRef 198552JC00844
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 9 April 1982
31 m awayRef 198252JNC0380
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A370 in North Somerset, 10 February 2024
34 m awayRef 2024522401290
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2018521902588 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.