B3157 crash in Dorset on 8 March 2012 at 13:28 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 2012
- Thursday, 13:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63241, longitude -2.52229, in the DT3 postcode district. 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
- 2012552D09716
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3157
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 2008.
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 14 January 2008
At the same spotRef 2008558W00315
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 17 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025552501522
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 22 June 2008
14 m awayRef 2008558D02642
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 17 November 2003
20 m awayRef 2003553W06099
Serious
Reliant Robin crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 23 February 1990
22 m awayRef 19905590W0248
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3157 in Dorset, 10 October 1988
22 m awayRef 1988558811403
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 2012552D09716 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.