Serious unclassified road crash in Somerset TA6 on 14 January 2022 at 20:00 involving a Qingqi QM 125 motorcycle
A Qingqi QM 125 motorcycle and a Kia Rio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 20:00 on Friday 14 January 2022. The 19-year-old male rider of the Qingqi QM 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Jan 2022
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Qingqi QM 125 and Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1297, longitude -3.00095, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022520201718
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2016.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 7 April 2016
3 m awayRef 2016520602660
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 28 December 2016
19 m awayRef 2016520700209
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 13 November 2020
19 m awayRef 2020520101130
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 19 December 2006
40 m awayRef 2006520153672
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 13 March 1981
46 m awayRef 198152GBR0329
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 April 1997
46 m awayRef 1997520011643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Qingqi QM 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Qingqi QM 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2022520201718 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 2022.