A35 crash in Dorset on 11 March 2009 at 05:05 involving a Renault Laguna
A lorry and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on the A35 in Dorset at 05:05 on Wednesday 11 March 2009. The 34-year-old male driver of the lorry was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 2009
- Wednesday, 05:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.74077, longitude -2.84507, in the DT6 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
- 2009559D00952
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2012.
Slight
Scania crash on the A35 in Dorset, 27 March 2012
10 m awayRef 2012552D12480
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A35 in Dorset, 26 November 2010
10 m awayRef 2010550D52315
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in Dorset, 21 June 1985
14 m awayRef 1985558510814
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A35 in Dorset, 10 January 2021
18 m awayRef 2021552100281
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A35 in Dorset, 10 August 1992
22 m awayRef 19925592W1058
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A35 in Dorset, 25 October 1988
28 m awayRef 1988558811492
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 2009559D00952 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 2009.