A348 crash in Dorset on 22 December 2011 at 15:37 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A348 in Dorset at 15:37 on Thursday 22 December 2011. The 18-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 15:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Rio and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79532, longitude -1.89895, in the BH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ferndown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ferndown South, Dorset, BH22 8HL area accident hotspot. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011551D57723
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 348
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2012.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A348 in Dorset, 30 August 2012
At the same spotRef 2012552D36281
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A348 in Dorset, 7 December 2010
At the same spotRef 2010550D53743
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A348 in Dorset, 5 January 2004
At the same spotRef 2004554E00081
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A348 in Dorset, 5 November 2008
At the same spotRef 2008558D04868
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A348 in Dorset, 12 September 2014
At the same spotRef 2014554D37911
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A348 in Dorset, 24 December 2023
6 m awayRef 2023552400080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 2011551D57723 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.