B3081 crash in Dorset on 29 April 2002 at 08:56 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A Mercedes CLK Class and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B3081 in Dorset at 08:56 on Monday 29 April 2002. The 27-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was 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
- 29 Apr 2002
- Monday, 08:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLK Class and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85178, longitude -1.81757, in the BH24 postcode district. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002552E02240
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3081
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2007.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 10 August 2007
10 m awayRef 2007557E03727
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 4 April 2019
20 m awayRef 2019551900347
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 21 February 2000
20 m awayRef 2000550E00875
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 11 April 2020
20 m awayRef 2020552000376
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 3 June 1999
22 m awayRef 19995599E2535
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 8 January 2009
22 m awayRef 2009559D00108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 2002552E02240 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 2002.