A348 crash in Dorset on 27 March 2013 at 18:56 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A348 in Dorset at 18:56 on Wednesday 27 March 2013. The 38-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2013
- Wednesday, 18:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79873, longitude -1.89383, in the BH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ferndown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ferndown North, Dorset, BH22 9JF area accident hotspot. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013553D12052
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 348
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A348 in Dorset, 27 October 2003
At the same spotRef 2003553E06062
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A348 in Dorset, 10 June 2008
At the same spotRef 2008558D02529
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the A348 in Dorset, 19 April 2000
At the same spotRef 2000550E01847
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A348 in Dorset, 16 July 2002
At the same spotRef 2002552E03853
Slight
Toyota Hilux crash on the A348 in Dorset, 17 June 2004
At the same spotRef 2004554E02893
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A348 in Dorset, 8 July 1998
At the same spotRef 19985598E3353
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2013553D12052 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.