C road crash in Dorset DT4 on 10 January 2013 at 17:50 involving a Honda
A Honda and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 17:50 on Thursday 10 January 2013. The 65-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jan 2013
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6245, longitude -2.47795, in the DT4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Radipole, Dorset, DT4 0EW area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Weymouth and Portland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013553D01297
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 2002.
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Dorset, 12 February 2002
At the same spotRef 2002552W00822
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Dorset, 27 June 2008
At the same spotRef 2008558D02744
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Dorset, 11 May 1987
14 m awayRef 1987558711214
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Sym Jet crash on a C road in Dorset, 6 September 2003
14 m awayRef 2003553W04746
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Dorset, 23 December 2009
14 m awayRef 2009559D05370
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 8 November 2005
20 m awayRef 2005555W05461
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, 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 2013553D01297 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 2013.