Serious A3066 crash in Dorset on 13 August 2009 at 20:10 involving a Peugeot 306
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Aug 2009
- Thursday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8107, longitude -2.74399, in the DT8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Beaminster. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009559D03282
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 11 July 2016
18 m awayRef 2016551601543
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 28 April 2024
55 m awayRef 2024552400491
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3163 in Dorset, 4 September 2012
86 m awayRef 2012552D37186
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 13 April 1992
92 m awayRef 19925592W0465
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 20 March 1993
92 m awayRef 19935593W0968
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 1 November 1996
92 m awayRef 19965596J4770
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 2009559D03282 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.