Serious B3081 crash in Dorset on 4 May 1995 at 00:50 involving a Colt Mitsubishi
A Colt Mitsubishi crashed on the B3081 in Dorset at 00:50 on Thursday 4 May 1995. The 23-year-old male driver, a 38-year-old male passenger and a 53-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 May 1995
- Thursday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Colt Mitsubishi
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98677, longitude -2.15353, in the SP7 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19955595D1656
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3081
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 February 2008.
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Vauxhall Nova crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 8 February 1993
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Ford Cortina crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 6 August 1993
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Austin Maestro crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 29 September 1991
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Citroen BX crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 15 September 1995
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Colt Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Colt Mitsubishi)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Colt Mitsubishi)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Colt Mitsubishi)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 19955595D1656 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 1995.