B3151 crash in Somerset on 28 October 2025 at 22:10 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 and a Vauxhall Adam were involved in a crash on the B3151 in Somerset at 22:10 on Tuesday 28 October 2025. The 59-year-old female driver of the Mazda MX-5 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Tuesday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda MX-5 and Vauxhall Adam
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0258, longitude -2.69037, in the TA11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7ES area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Somerset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520600456
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3151
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 372
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1991.
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A372 in Somerset, 7 July 1991
4 m awayRef 19915291F0992
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A372 in Somerset, 16 June 1991
4 m awayRef 19915291F0880
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A372 in Somerset, 8 December 1987
4 m awayRef 198752FO01608
Slight
Toyota Verso crash on the A372 in Somerset, 8 November 2012
4 m awayRef 2012520207445
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A372 in Somerset, 26 September 2004
4 m awayRef 2004520128686
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A372 in Somerset, 11 August 1990
4 m awayRef 19905290F1200
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Adam
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2025520600456 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.