Serious A3030 crash in Dorset on 27 June 2013 at 16:10 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat, a Volkswagen Eos and a Mitsubishi Shogun were involved in a crash on the A3030 in Dorset at 16:10 on Thursday 27 June 2013. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jun 2013
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Passat and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91975, longitude -2.37811, in the DT10 postcode district. The location was in the former North Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013553D25492
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3030
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 August 2004.
Serious
Car crash on the A3030 in Dorset, 23 August 2004
10 m awayRef 2004554W04103
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A3030 in Dorset, 7 November 2007
22 m awayRef 2007557W05236
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A3030 in Dorset, 11 November 2013
22 m awayRef 2013553D47415
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A3030 in Dorset, 26 August 2000
30 m awayRef 2000550W04278
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3030 in Dorset, 6 August 1998
50 m awayRef 19985598W3895
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A3030 in Dorset, 11 October 1995
50 m awayRef 19955595D4029
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Eos
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Eos)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mitsubishi Shogun)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 83, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 2013553D25492 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.