B3081 crash in Dorset on 21 March 2001 at 15:14 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the B3081 in Dorset at 15:14 on Wednesday 21 March 2001. The 41-year-old male driver of the Volvo lorry and the 33-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2001
- Wednesday, 15:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8434, longitude -1.80538, in the BH24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashley Heath. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Leonards & St Ives, Dorset, BH24 2AT area accident hotspot. 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
- 2001551E01433
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3081
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 31
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 23 June 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the A31 in Dorset, 23 June 2000
At the same spotRef 2000550E03070
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A31 in Dorset, 26 July 2001
At the same spotRef 2001551E03885
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on the A31 in Dorset, 23 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999559E06279
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A31 in Dorset, 2 October 2000
At the same spotRef 2000550E04982
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A31 in Dorset, 4 August 2019
6 m awayRef 2019551900769
Slight
Lorry crash on the A31 in Dorset, 13 September 1986
10 m awayRef 1986558623101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,603 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2001551E01433 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 2001.