Serious unclassified road crash in Somerset TA24 on 8 March 2025 at 13:24 involving an Audi RSQ3
An Audi RSQ3 and a Yamaha FZ motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 13:24 on Saturday 8 March 2025. The 54-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZ motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Mar 2025
- Saturday, 13:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi RSQ3 and Yamaha FZ
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2061, longitude -3.4824, in the TA24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minehead. 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520500484
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 1988.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A39 in Somerset, 11 September 1988
17 m awayRef 198852GM01461
Slight
Toyota Verso crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 21 January 2025
25 m awayRef 2025520500625
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 5 September 2003
41 m awayRef 2003521209289
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 29 January 2010
49 m awayRef 2010520000915
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A39 in Somerset, 13 May 1993
62 m awayRef 19935293K1455
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 19 February 1979
67 m awayRef 197952JMI0173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi RSQ3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,480 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Yamaha FZ
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha FZ)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2025520500484 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 2025.