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A35 crash in Dorset on 22 March 2003 at 13:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A35 in Dorset at 13:00 on Saturday 22 March 2003. The 19-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Mar 2003
Saturday, 13:00
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74293, longitude -2.02959, in the BH16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lytchett Matravers & Upton, Dorset, BH16 5SY area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Purbeck district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dorset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2003550P01465
Council area
Dorset
Police force
Dorset

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
35
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 January 1988.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Travelling to
    West
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Travelling to
    West
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 3: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2003550P01465 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 2003.