C road crash in Dorset SP8 on 1 December 2005 at 22:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on a C road in Dorset at 22:00 on Thursday 1 December 2005. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06622, longitude -2.25029, in the SP8 postcode district. The location was in the former North Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005555E05975
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 1997.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Dorset, 18 October 1997
40 m awayRef 19975597D5123
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 2 February 2001
61 m awayRef 2001551E00638
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 7 March 1988
289 m awayRef 1988558810289
Slight
Citroen 2CV crash on a C road in Dorset, 2 March 2007
388 m awayRef 2007557E01029
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Dorset, 27 December 2002
402 m awayRef 2002552E07340
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Dorset, 8 February 2004
451 m awayRef 2004554E00767
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 2005555E05975 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.