A35 crash in Dorset on 17 September 2003 at 15:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A35 in Dorset at 15:30 on Wednesday 17 September 2003. A 28-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 32-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2003
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71324, longitude -2.54514, in the DT2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winterborne & Broadmayne, Dorset, DT2 9XD area accident hotspot. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003553W04885
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2010.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A35 in Dorset, 21 August 2010
10 m awayRef 2010550D36476
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A35 in Dorset, 23 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006556W06272
Fatal
Renault 12 crash on the A35 in Dorset, 10 June 1992
32 m awayRef 19925592W0729
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A35 in Dorset, 16 July 1996
32 m awayRef 19965596D2929
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A35 in Dorset, 5 October 1991
32 m awayRef 19915591W1318
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the A35 in Dorset, 8 August 2022
32 m awayRef 2022552201008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2003553W04885 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.