C road crash in Dorset BH16 on 22 March 2003 at 17:45 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 17:45 on Saturday 22 March 2003. The 33-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series and an 18-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2003
- Saturday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72887, longitude -2.08739, in the BH16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lytchett Matravers & Upton, Dorset, BH16 6FN 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
- 2003553E01471
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 April 1986.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 4 April 1986
22 m awayRef 1986558610429
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Dorset, 5 May 1996
22 m awayRef 19965596D1823
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on a C road in Dorset, 17 August 1999
22 m awayRef 1999559E03841
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 24 August 1982
28 m awayRef 1982558211221
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dorset, 21 November 2003
32 m awayRef 2003553E06154
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 8 November 1988
32 m awayRef 1988558831960
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2003553E01471 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.