C road crash in Dorset BH21 on 18 May 1998 at 17:50 involving a Ford Transit van
Two Ford Transit vans were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 17:50 on Monday 18 May 1998. The 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1998
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90111, longitude -1.87836, in the BH21 postcode district. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19985598E2404
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1989.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 19985598E2404 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 1998.