Serious B3071 crash in Dorset on 25 November 2008 at 22:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B3071 in Dorset at 22:30 on Tuesday 25 November 2008. A 19-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 2008
- Tuesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.64566, longitude -2.23433, in the BH20 postcode district. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008558D05206
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3071
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2002.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 August 2002
22 m awayRef 2002552E04619
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3071 in Dorset, 4 May 1994
32 m awayRef 19945594W1601
Slight
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B3071 in Dorset, 14 May 2008
41 m awayRef 2008558D02097
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B3071 in Dorset, 26 June 2011
51 m awayRef 2011551D28532
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the B3071 in Dorset, 5 February 2012
51 m awayRef 2012552D05152
Serious
Car crash on the B3071 in Dorset, 31 March 1984
81 m awayRef 1984558410400
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2008558D05206 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.