Unclassified road crash in Dorset DT1 on 18 March 2011 at 20:25 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and two Ford Fiestas were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dorset at 20:25 on Friday 18 March 2011. A 16-year-old female passenger in vehicle 3 and a 19-year-old male passenger in vehicle 3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2011
- Friday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 306 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69902, longitude -2.44203, in the DT1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winterborne & Broadmayne, Dorset, DT2 9PR area accident hotspot. 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
- 2011551D12191
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2025.
Slight
Honda CR-V crash on a C road in Dorset, 4 July 2025
26 m awayRef 2025552500734
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on a C road in Dorset, 8 February 2021
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Serious
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Dorset, 18 January 1990
30 m awayRef 19905590W0080
Slight
Longjia LJ crash on a C road in Dorset, 8 April 2015
54 m awayRef 2015555999971
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A35 in Dorset, 27 April 1999
63 m awayRef 19995599W1947
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A35 in Dorset, 6 August 2015
67 m awayRef 2015551500225
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2011551D12191 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 2011.