A3066 crash in Dorset on 9 March 2012 at 21:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on the A3066 in Dorset at 21:30 on Friday 9 March 2012. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2012
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73883, longitude -2.74654, in the DT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bridport, Dorset, DT6 4JZ 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
- 2012552D09958
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3066
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 7 June 2007.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 7 June 2007
At the same spotRef 2007557W02682
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 2 April 2009
At the same spotRef 2009559D01303
Serious
Car crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 5 September 1980
10 m awayRef 1980558011842
Serious
Renault 18 crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 15 January 1991
22 m awayRef 19915591W0069
Serious
Honda crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 8 December 1992
22 m awayRef 19925592W1700
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A3066 in Dorset, 15 May 1992
28 m awayRef 19925592W0608
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2012552D09958 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.