B3070 crash in Dorset on 16 December 2000 at 12:20 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and an Isuzu Trooper were involved in a crash on the B3070 in Dorset at 12:20 on Saturday 16 December 2000. The 43-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 55-year-old male driver of the Isuzu Trooper were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2000
- Saturday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Isuzu Trooper
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63199, longitude -2.2361, in the BH20 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
- 2000550E06480
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3070
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 14 June 1984
70 m awayRef 1984558410815
Slight
Seat Marbella crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 19 June 2000
103 m awayRef 2000550E02981
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 19 May 2016
116 m awayRef 2016551601477
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 20 October 2000
141 m awayRef 2000550E05303
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 29 October 1998
220 m awayRef 19985598E5575
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 13 August 1998
220 m awayRef 19985598E4043
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Isuzu Trooper
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,771 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Isuzu Trooper)
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 2000550E06480 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.