Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA6 on 12 December 2019 at 07:30 involving a BMW M1
A BMW M1 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 07:30 on Thursday 12 December 2019. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2019
- Thursday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW M1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15382, longitude -2.71443, in the BA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Glastonbury. The location was in the former Mendip district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019520907445
- Council area
- 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
- 20 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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%
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The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2014.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW M1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW M1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2019520907445 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.