C road crash in Dorset BH20 on 4 March 2012 at 12:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 12:15 on Sunday 4 March 2012. The 31-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2012
- Sunday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68623, longitude -2.10826, in the BH20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wareham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4QP 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
- 2012552D09441
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dry
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 11 April 1991.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 11 April 1991
10 m awayRef 19915591W0456
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Dorset, 25 February 1980
10 m awayRef 1980558010363
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 16 January 1979
20 m awayRef 1979557910106
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Dorset, 6 December 2021
28 m awayRef 2021552200272
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Dorset, 27 March 2003
51 m awayRef 2003553E01561
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 March 2001
51 m awayRef 2001551E01724
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 2012552D09441 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 2012.