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C road crash in Dorset BH19 on 10 September 1997 at 10:30 involving a Citroen AX

A Citroen AX hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dorset at 10:30 on Wednesday 10 September 1997. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
10 Sep 1997
Wednesday, 10:30
Vehicles
1
Citroen AX
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.60999, longitude -1.95953, in the BH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swanage. 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
19975597D4486
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
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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 2 April 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Citroen AX

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Engine capacity
    954 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    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 19975597D4486 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.