B3068 crash in Dorset on 17 December 2009 at 09:55 involving a DAF Trucks FA 55LF lorry
A DAF Trucks FA 55LF lorry and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B3068 in Dorset at 09:55 on Thursday 17 December 2009. The 53-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2009
- Thursday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks FA 55LF and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73439, longitude -2.02505, in the BH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Upton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lytchett Matravers & Upton, Dorset, BH16 5SU area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009559D05229
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1998.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B3068 in Dorset, 22 January 1998
10 m awayRef 19985598D0476
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B3068 in Dorset, 30 October 2008
10 m awayRef 2008558D04790
Slight
Car crash on the A3500 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 5 August 1989
22 m awayRef 19895589C1316
Slight
Seat Inca crash on the B3068 in Dorset, 4 July 2006
22 m awayRef 2006556P03047
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A350 in Dorset, 14 September 1993
22 m awayRef 19935593C3648
Serious
Suzuki Baleno crash on the B3068 in Dorset, 2 July 2021
23 m awayRef 2021552100854
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks FA 55LF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,880 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
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 2009559D05229 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.