Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA4 on 28 July 2021 at 07:10 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Mercedes lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 07:10 on Wednesday 28 July 2021. The 25-year-old male driver of the Seat Leon was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2021
- Wednesday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01327, longitude -3.2871, in the TA4 postcode district. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021520103640
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 2001.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 5 October 2001
46 m awayRef 2001521348057
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 20 July 2001
55 m awayRef 200152G985747
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 6 February 2010
89 m awayRef 2010520001360
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 November 1993
145 m awayRef 19935293K3507
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 15 July 2025
269 m awayRef 2025520501735
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 3 May 2002
361 m awayRef 2002520597658
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- 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 2021520103640 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 2021.