B3157 crash in Dorset on 14 January 2008 at 13:43 involving a Peugeot Partner
A Peugeot Partner and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the B3157 in Dorset at 13:43 on Monday 14 January 2008. The 29-year-old female driver of the Peugeot Partner 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
- 14 Jan 2008
- Monday, 13:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63241, longitude -2.52229, in the DT3 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
- 2008558W00315
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3157
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2012.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 8 March 2012
At the same spotRef 2012552D09716
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 17 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025552501522
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 22 June 2008
14 m awayRef 2008558D02642
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 17 November 2003
20 m awayRef 2003553W06099
Serious
Reliant Robin crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 23 February 1990
22 m awayRef 19905590W0248
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 10 October 1988
22 m awayRef 1988558811403
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
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 2008558W00315 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.