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A354 crash in Dorset on 16 June 1987 at 06:58 involving a car

A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A354 in Dorset at 06:58 on Tuesday 16 June 1987. The 39-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Jun 1987
Tuesday, 06:58
Vehicles
2
Car and lorry
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80077, longitude -2.23196, in the DT11 postcode district. The location was in the former North Dorset district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dorset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987558711396
Council area
Dorset
Police force
Dorset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
354
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

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

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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1990.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    39 years

  • Vehicle 2: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Nearside

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1987558711396 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 1987.