A3500 crash in Dorset on 17 November 2001 at 23:10 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A3500 in Dorset at 23:10 on Saturday 17 November 2001. The 18-year-old male driver of the Rover 100 Series was slightly injured. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2001
- Saturday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 100 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001551E06110
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3500
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 Series)
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 2001551E06110 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.