Serious unclassified road crash in Somerset BA6 on 28 August 2025 at 01:00 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 crashed on an unclassified road in Somerset at 01:00 on Thursday 28 August 2025. The 50-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Aug 2025
- Thursday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16216, longitude -2.70082, in the BA6 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520600018
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 39
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2008.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A39 in Somerset, 11 July 2008
3 m awayRef 2008520807750
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A39 in Somerset, 7 January 2025
6 m awayRef 2025520500278
Fatal
Kawasaki ZR750 crash on the A39 in Somerset, 3 October 2011
7 m awayRef 2011520106063
Slight
Volvo crash on the A39 in Somerset, 6 January 2003
22 m awayRef 2003520009067
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the A39 in Somerset, 11 February 2022
28 m awayRef 20225222ME240
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A39 in Somerset, 21 October 2002
38 m awayRef 2002520143219
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Serious injury band
- Very 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 2025520600018 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.