Serious unclassified road crash in Dorset DT6 on 19 November 2012 at 21:00 involving a Vauxhall Agila
A Vauxhall Agila hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dorset at 21:00 on Monday 19 November 2012. A 39-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Nov 2012
- Monday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73468, longitude -2.76333, 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 3NZ 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012552D48903
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 3162
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2020.
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the B3162 in Dorset, 29 January 2020
8 m awayRef 2020552000532
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3612 in Dorset, 15 June 1992
10 m awayRef 19925592W0752
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3162 in Dorset, 19 February 2019
14 m awayRef 2019551900293
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B3162 in Dorset, 3 May 2005
30 m awayRef 2005555W01929
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B3162 in Dorset, 31 August 2022
36 m awayRef 2022552201045
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3162 in Dorset, 2 August 2002
36 m awayRef 2002552W04215
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Agila)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012552D48903 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.