B3082 crash in Dorset on 18 November 2005 at 17:40 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf, a Mitsubishi L200 van and a car were involved in a crash on the B3082 in Dorset at 17:40 on Friday 18 November 2005. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2005
- Friday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82664, longitude -2.06485, in the DT11 postcode district. 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
- 2005555E05698
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3082
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2022.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3082 in Dorset, 22 December 2022
11 m awayRef 2022552201560
Slight
Car crash on the B3082 in Dorset, 22 November 1980
42 m awayRef 1980558024331
Slight
Car crash on the B3082 in Dorset, 9 November 1982
50 m awayRef 1982558223350
Fatal
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the B3082 in Dorset, 7 December 2025
55 m awayRef 2025552600278
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B3082 in Dorset, 28 July 2014
64 m awayRef 2014554D31386
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3082 in Dorset, 28 November 1997
100 m awayRef 19975597K5993
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi L200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi L200)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 2005555E05698 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 2005.