A369 crash in North Somerset on 23 October 2025 at 17:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Hyundai i10 were involved in a crash on the A369 in North Somerset at 17:30 on Thursday 23 October 2025. The 27-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo and a 39-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Hyundai i10
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45397, longitude -2.64289, in the BS8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Ashton, North Somerset, BS8 3PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025522600394
- Council area
- North Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 369
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 2020.
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 9 September 2020
9 m awayRef 2020522100741
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 24 March 2003
33 m awayRef 2003520044113
Fatal
Car crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 31 August 1986
40 m awayRef 198652JN00926
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 11 July 1999
53 m awayRef 1999520082571
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on an unclassified road in North Somerset, 18 June 2016
55 m awayRef 2016521606886
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A369 in North Somerset, 24 November 2002
62 m awayRef 2002520162418
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025522600394 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.