A361 crash in Somerset on 2 August 2019 at 09:05 involving a Peugeot 2008
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2019
- Friday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 2008 and Nissan Pixo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07398, longitude -2.89721, in the TA7 postcode district. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019520904870
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 2025.
Serious
Jaguar F-Pace crash on the A361 in Somerset, 19 August 2025
33 m awayRef 2025520502145
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 19 April 1999
39 m awayRef 1999520046995
Slight
Car crash on the A361 in Somerset, 2 October 1998
39 m awayRef 1998520113914
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in Somerset, 19 November 1982
108 m awayRef 198252GBO1724
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in Somerset, 2 July 1980
108 m awayRef 198052GBO0966
Serious
Car crash on the A361 in Somerset, 7 May 1988
114 m awayRef 198852GO00700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 2008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Pixo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 2008)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019520904870 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 2019.