A351 crash in Dorset on 8 December 2006 at 17:09 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A car and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A351 in Dorset at 17:09 on Friday 8 December 2006. The 30-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2006
- Friday, 17:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72798, longitude -2.07024, in the BH16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wareham, Dorset, BH16 6JJ 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
- 2006556E05983
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 351
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 2009.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A351 in Dorset, 6 July 2009
At the same spotRef 2009559D02698
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A351 in Dorset, 13 January 1995
At the same spotRef 19955595D0171
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A351 in Dorset, 20 June 2002
10 m awayRef 2002552E03302
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on the A351 in Dorset, 10 August 2000
10 m awayRef 2000550E03943
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A351 in Dorset, 11 August 2007
22 m awayRef 2007557E03754
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A351 in Dorset, 13 July 2011
36 m awayRef 2011551D31395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2006556E05983 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 2006.