Serious unclassified road crash in Somerset BA22 on 12 December 2025 at 14:48 involving a Suzuki Splash
A Suzuki Splash hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Somerset at 14:48 on Friday 12 December 2025. A 68-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2025
- Friday, 14:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Splash
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01936, longitude -2.5775, in the BA22 postcode district. The location was in the former South Somerset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025520600795
- 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
- 30 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 July 1991.
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A359 in Somerset, 17 July 1991
51 m awayRef 19915291F1045
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A359 in Somerset, 4 February 1995
89 m awayRef 19955295J0539
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A359 in Somerset, 1 October 1990
93 m awayRef 19905290F1450
Slight
Subaru Subaru crash on the A359 in Somerset, 16 January 1998
99 m awayRef 1998520005334
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A359 in Somerset, 23 May 1996
103 m awayRef 19965296J8290
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A359 in Somerset, 3 May 1988
106 m awayRef 198852FN00607
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Splash
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Splash)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025520600795 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.