A38 crash in Somerset on 25 October 2025 at 14:30 involving a BMW X1
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2025
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X1 and Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98607, longitude -3.1906, in the TA21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackdown & Neroche, Somerset, TA21 9HY area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Somerset West and Taunton district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520600478
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1987.
Slight
Van crash on the A38 in Somerset, 15 August 1987
26 m awayRef 198752GW01254
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A38 in Somerset, 27 April 2004
26 m awayRef 2004520054917
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A38 in Somerset, 9 September 1993
31 m awayRef 19935293K2812
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A38 in Somerset, 4 November 1999
31 m awayRef 1999520137365
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Somerset, 12 October 1981
31 m awayRef 198152GTW1657
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Somerset, 11 January 1984
31 m awayRef 198452GTW0050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X1)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025520600478 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.