Unclassified road crash in Dorset BH22 on 30 August 2002 at 21:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dorset at 21:30 on Friday 30 August 2002. The cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2002
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81016, longitude -1.90005, in the BH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ferndown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ferndown North, Dorset, BH22 9JF 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
- 2002552E04835
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightOn vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2002552E04835 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.