A31 crash in Dorset on 31 December 2001 at 12:18 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Vauxhall Carlton were involved in a crash on the A31 in Dorset at 12:18 on Monday 31 December 2001. The 52-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2001
- Monday, 12:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001552E00002
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 31
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2001552E00002 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.