Unclassified road crash in Dorset on 27 December 1986 at 15:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dorset at 15:00 on Saturday 27 December 1986. A 66-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured. The location was in the former North Dorset district.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1986; Saturday, 15:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986558611930
Council area: Dorset
Police force: Dorset

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Reversing
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
35 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, not crossing

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 1986558611930 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dorset road accident statistics for 1986.