Unclassified road crash in North Somerset BS48 on 26 October 2024 at 18:32 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Lexus CT 200 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset at 18:32 on Saturday 26 October 2024. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2024
- Saturday, 18:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Lexus CT 200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4275, longitude -2.76236, in the BS48 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nailsea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nailsea West End, North Somerset, BS48 2EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024522403144
- 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
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 1 May 1995
4 m awayRef 19955295M1625
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 31 August 1991
9 m awayRef 19915291J1074
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 15 March 1997
10 m awayRef 1997520026835
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 14 January 1989
18 m awayRef 198952JN00066
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 4 November 1980
36 m awayRef 198052JNA1348
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 10 December 2005
49 m awayRef 2005520164704
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Lexus CT 200
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024522403144 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 2024.