B3073 crash in Dorset on 29 December 1986 at 13:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B3073 in Dorset at 13:15 on Monday 29 December 1986. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured. The location was in the former East Dorset district.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 13:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986558624620
Council area: Dorset
Police force: Dorset

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 3073
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 1986558624620 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.