A351 crash in Dorset on 31 October 2012 at 15:35 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A351 in Dorset at 15:35 on Wednesday 31 October 2012. The 53-year-old male driver of the car and the 39-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2012
- Wednesday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69728, longitude -2.11183, in the BH20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wareham. 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
- 2012552D45856
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 351
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 2014.
Serious
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A351 in Dorset, 13 May 2014
At the same spotRef 2014554D19139
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A351 in Dorset, 21 May 2012
At the same spotRef 2012552C21053
Slight
Bus crash on the A351 in Dorset, 2 July 2025
6 m awayRef 2025552501071
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A351 in Dorset, 30 July 1993
10 m awayRef 19935593W2960
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A351 in Dorset, 11 January 1991
10 m awayRef 19915591W0049
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A351 in Dorset, 9 May 1984
10 m awayRef 1984558410607
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 53 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2012552D45856 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.