Unclassified road crash in Somerset BA4 on 28 October 2025 at 23:55 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda crashed on an unclassified road in Somerset at 23:55 on Tuesday 28 October 2025. The 64-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Tuesday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Panda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12097, longitude -2.5186, in the BA4 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520600464
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 1998.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A361 in Somerset, 20 August 1998
29 m awayRef 1998520096032
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A371 in Somerset, 7 November 1995
29 m awayRef 19955295J7940
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 20 June 2004
31 m awayRef 2004520080438
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A371 in Somerset, 18 January 2008
37 m awayRef 2008520801017
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A371 in Somerset, 26 August 2002
42 m awayRef 2002520112038
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A371 in Somerset, 5 October 2011
59 m awayRef 2011520107208
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Panda)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025520600464 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.