C road crash in Dorset DT11 on 5 May 1997 at 23:14 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dorset at 23:14 on Monday 5 May 1997. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 1997
- Monday, 23:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85106, longitude -2.16303, in the DT11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blandford Forum. 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
- 19975597D2103
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dorset, 13 June 2018
5 m awayRef 2018551800938
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Dorset, 3 March 1998
10 m awayRef 19985598D1080
Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Dorset, 15 April 2025
12 m awayRef 2025552500400
Slight
Audi 90 crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 7 August 1998
28 m awayRef 19985598E3903
Serious
Car crash on the A350 in Dorset, 29 October 1981
57 m awayRef 1981558111540
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dorset, 23 December 2015
57 m awayRef 2015551600296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 19975597D2103 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 1997.