B3227 crash in Somerset on 30 June 2025 at 12:47 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a car were involved in a crash on the B3227 in Somerset at 12:47 on Monday 30 June 2025. The 35-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Monday, 12:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0267, longitude -3.15006, in the TA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norton Fitzwarren. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lydeard, Somerset, TA2 6QF area accident hotspot. 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520501941
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3227
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 June 2014.
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3227 in Somerset, 20 June 2014
2 m awayRef 2014520404179
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3227 in Somerset, 29 July 2021
2 m awayRef 2021520104181
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3227 in Somerset, 8 February 2011
65 m awayRef 2011520100881
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the B3227 in Somerset, 25 July 2019
69 m awayRef 2019520906375
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on the B3227 in Somerset, 7 June 2006
78 m awayRef 2006520067717
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B3227 in Somerset, 24 June 2021
91 m awayRef 2021520103090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025520501941 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.