Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA6 on 2 August 2020 at 08:55 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Peugeot 2008 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 08:55 on Sunday 2 August 2020. The 64-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 and the 56-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 2008 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2020
- Sunday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Peugeot 2008
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09608, longitude -2.68755, in the BA6 postcode district. 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
- 2020520100427
- Council area
- 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2016.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 September 2016
10 m awayRef 2016520606995
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 22 May 1991
50 m awayRef 19915291F0730
Serious
Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 24 December 1994
50 m awayRef 19945294L0038
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 17 October 1987
51 m awayRef 198752FG01306
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 20 December 2008
168 m awayRef 2008520900095
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 August 1994
206 m awayRef 19945294J2782
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 2008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 2008)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020520100427 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 2020.