B3115 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 12 November 2020 at 20:41 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Ford Transit Connect van were involved in a crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset at 20:41 on Thursday 12 November 2020. The 47-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Connect van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2020
- Thursday, 20:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Ford Transit Connect
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32847, longitude -2.47773, in the BA2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020522004544
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3115
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Weather
- Fine 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 24 August 1984
14 m awayRef 198452EKR0977
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 22 August 1989
30 m awayRef 198952ER01105
Serious
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 13 January 2003
56 m awayRef 2003520008044
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 24 June 1981
65 m awayRef 198152EKR0784
Serious
Car crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 23 January 1981
79 m awayRef 198152EKR0094
Slight
Car crash on the B3115 in Bath and North East Somerset, 9 May 1980
98 m awayRef 198052EKR0573
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Connect)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2020522004544 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 2020.