A354 crash in Dorset on 18 July 2007 at 17:15 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A354 in Dorset at 17:15 on Wednesday 18 July 2007. The 30-year-old female driver of the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2007
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63516, longitude -2.46759, in the DT3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Radipole, Dorset, DT3 5FQ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Weymouth and Portland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007557W03490
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 354
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2009.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A354 in Dorset, 27 November 2009
10 m awayRef 2009559D04902
Slight
Toyota Camry crash on the A354 in Dorset, 19 September 1993
10 m awayRef 19935593W3719
Slight
Car crash on the A354 in Dorset, 17 July 1986
10 m awayRef 1986558610983
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A354 in Dorset, 7 May 2010
22 m awayRef 2010550D18621
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A354 in Dorset, 23 December 2000
42 m awayRef 2000550W06632
Slight
Dennis crash on the B3159 in Dorset, 7 April 2013
57 m awayRef 2013553D13397
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
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 2007557W03490 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 2007.