Serious A350 crash in Dorset on 19 June 2000 at 16:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Kawasaki ZX550 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A350 in Dorset at 16:45 on Monday 19 June 2000. A 29-year-old male passenger on the Kawasaki ZX550 motorcycle was seriously injured and the 46-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jun 2000
- Monday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Kawasaki ZX550
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76962, longitude -2.06605, in the BH16 postcode district. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000550E02980
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 350
- 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
- Unclassified
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 27 March 2005.
Slight
MG ZR crash on the A350 in Dorset, 27 March 2005
At the same spotRef 2005555P01373
Slight
ERF crash on the A350 in Dorset, 30 March 1999
At the same spotRef 19995599E1469
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A350 in Dorset, 16 October 1998
At the same spotRef 19985598E5258
Serious
Dacia Sandero crash on the A350 in Dorset, 8 December 2016
3 m awayRef 2016551602673
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A350 in Dorset, 7 March 2015
5 m awayRef 2015555998178
Slight
Lexus UX 250 crash on the A350 in Dorset, 16 December 2023
7 m awayRef 2023552301502
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX550
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 553 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX550)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2000550E02980 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 2000.