A338 crash in Dorset on 30 December 2001 at 09:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A338 in Dorset at 09:45 on Sunday 30 December 2001. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
It happened in daylight on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2001
- Sunday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001551E07014
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 338
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2001551E07014 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.