A350 crash in Dorset on 21 September 2008 at 11:30 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Citroen AX were involved in a crash on the A350 in Dorset at 11:30 on Sunday 21 September 2008. The 28-year-old female driver of the Citroen AX was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2008
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79794, longitude -2.08468, in the BH21 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
- 2008558D04143
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 350
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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 18 September 2020.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A350 in Dorset, 18 September 2020
10 m awayRef 2020552000885
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A350 in Dorset, 19 March 1994
10 m awayRef 19945594W0979
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A350 in Dorset, 19 March 2007
10 m awayRef 2007557E01324
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A350 in Dorset, 5 August 1999
14 m awayRef 1999559E03612
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the A350 in Dorset, 23 October 2024
16 m awayRef 2024552401256
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A350 in Dorset, 8 July 1991
20 m awayRef 19915591W0847
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen AX)
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 2008558D04143 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 2008.