Unclassified road crash in Dorset DT7 on 21 March 2013 at 19:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dorset at 19:15 on Thursday 21 March 2013. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2013
- Thursday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72436, longitude -2.93332, in the DT7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lyme Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lyme & Charmouth, Dorset, DT7 3AA 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
- 2013553D11414
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2004.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A3052 in Dorset, 17 February 2004
10 m awayRef 2004554W00816
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A3052 in Dorset, 25 June 2010
14 m awayRef 2010550D27642
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3052 in Dorset, 2 October 1991
14 m awayRef 19915591W1305
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3052 in Dorset, 25 February 1993
14 m awayRef 19935593W0677
Slight
Bus crash on the A3052 in Dorset, 14 August 1979
14 m awayRef 1979557911850
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A3052 in Dorset, 16 June 1990
20 m awayRef 19905590W0790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2013553D11414 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.