Unclassified road crash in North Somerset BS40 on 2 June 2025 at 13:30 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset at 13:30 on Monday 2 June 2025. The 75-year-old female driver of the Mercedes E Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Monday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38898, longitude -2.64987, in the BS40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025522501642
- Council area
- North 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 180 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A362 in Bath and North East Somerset, 7 December 1997
180 m awayRef 1997520010904
Slight
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 2 August 1999
184 m awayRef 1999520095206
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 9 April 2005
259 m awayRef 2005520046817
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 27 May 1984
287 m awayRef 198452JNA0537
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 14 March 1997
348 m awayRef 1997520023944
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 9 January 1998
475 m awayRef 1998520005321
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025522501642 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Somerset road accident statistics for 2025.