A372 crash in Somerset on 24 July 2025 at 11:55 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Jaguar XF Series were involved in a crash on the A372 in Somerset at 11:55 on Thursday 24 July 2025. The 37-year-old female driver of the Jaguar XF Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2025
- Thursday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Jaguar XF Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0945, longitude -2.89087, in the TA7 postcode district. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520501795
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 372
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A372 in Somerset, 12 June 1988
3 m awayRef 198852GR00894
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A372 in Somerset, 30 July 2012
7 m awayRef 2012520205157
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A372 in Somerset, 24 February 2025
22 m awayRef 2025520500841
Fatal
Car crash on the A372 in Somerset, 8 March 1979
25 m awayRef 197952JBC0198
Slight
Sym Jet crash on the A372 in Somerset, 7 January 2001
25 m awayRef 200152GB14907
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A372 in Somerset, 28 August 2024
35 m awayRef 2024520402745
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XF Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar XF Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025520501795 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.