Unclassified road crash in North Somerset BS48 on 15 March 2022 at 06:30 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A car and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset at 06:30 on Tuesday 15 March 2022. The 36-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2022
- Tuesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38963, longitude -2.7145, in the BS48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Downside.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022522204093
- Council area
- North 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
- 40 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2018.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 17 May 2018
8 m awayRef 2018521803669
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 30 May 1984
23 m awayRef 198452JNA0536
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 23 June 2019
31 m awayRef 2019521905231
Slight
Hyundai ix20 crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 24 February 2015
31 m awayRef 2015521502473
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 23 September 2003
62 m awayRef 2003520125130
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 28 April 1988
102 m awayRef 198852JN00503
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2022522204093 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Somerset road accident statistics for 2022.