A38 crash in Somerset on 29 September 2019 at 09:18 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran and a Ford Grand C-Max were involved in a crash on the A38 in Somerset at 09:18 on Sunday 29 September 2019. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Touran was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2019
- Sunday, 09:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Ford Grand C-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12637, longitude -3.00054, in the TA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgwater. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridgwater North & Central, Somerset, TA6 5AG area accident hotspot. 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
- 2019520906472
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2024.
Slight
Car crash on the A39 in Somerset, 13 February 2024
5 m awayRef 2024520401298
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A38 in Somerset, 7 June 2013
10 m awayRef 2013520304238
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A38 in Somerset, 11 November 2005
11 m awayRef 2005520149403
Serious
Volvo S70 crash on the A38 in Somerset, 24 December 2012
21 m awayRef 2012520208624
Slight
Iveco crash on the A38 in Somerset, 27 July 2009
21 m awayRef 2009520906908
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Somerset, 28 August 1987
23 m awayRef 198752GB01355
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Grand C-Max
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2019520906472 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.