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A351 crash in Dorset on 11 January 1996 at 10:30 involving a Freight Rover van

A Freight Rover van and an Iveco-Ford lorry were involved in a crash on the A351 in Dorset at 10:30 on Thursday 11 January 1996. The 52-year-old male driver of the Freight Rover van and the 35-year-old male driver of the Iveco-Ford lorry were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
11 Jan 1996
Thursday, 10:30
Vehicles
2
Freight Rover and Iveco-Ford
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.60946, longitude -1.99076, in the BH19 postcode district. The location was in the former Purbeck district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dorset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19965596D0163
Council area
Dorset
Police force
Dorset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
351
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
3069

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 1992.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Freight Rover

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    52 years
    Engine capacity
    1,800 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    11 years

  • Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 52, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Freight Rover)

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 35, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Iveco-Ford)

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 19965596D0163 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 1996.