C road crash in Dorset DT2 on 30 September 2006 at 07:58 involving an Isuzu
An Isuzu and a ridden horse were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 07:58 on Saturday 30 September 2006. The 59-year-old male rider of the ridden horse was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2006
- Saturday, 07:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Isuzu and ridden horse
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79638, longitude -2.42578, in the DT2 postcode district. 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
- 2006556W04652
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Dorset, 26 December 1992
At the same spotRef 19925592W1794
Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Dorset, 18 July 2000
20 m awayRef 2000550W03488
Slight
Nissan Prairie crash on a C road in Dorset, 1 May 2001
41 m awayRef 2001551W02213
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on a C road in Dorset, 31 December 2020
117 m awayRef 2020552100031
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 21 August 1987
136 m awayRef 1987558711750
Serious
Suzuki Vitara crash on a C road in Dorset, 15 July 2004
177 m awayRef 2004554W03382
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Isuzu
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ridden horse
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 59, horse rider, on vehicle 2 (Ridden horse)
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 2006556W04652 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.