Serious unclassified road crash in Dorset DT4 on 23 December 2013 at 12:21 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dorset at 12:21 on Monday 23 December 2013. A 51-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2013
- Monday, 12:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.61156, longitude -2.45492, in the DT4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westham, Dorset, DT4 0UB 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013553D53654
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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 slight injury crash on 12 September 1999.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 12 September 1999
10 m awayRef 1999559W04316
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A354 in Dorset, 25 August 1992
10 m awayRef 19925592W1144
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 6 March 2003
10 m awayRef 2003553W01205
Slight
Volkswagen crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 6 June 2003
10 m awayRef 2003553W02917
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 21 September 2010
10 m awayRef 2010550D41455
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A354 in Dorset, 21 August 1986
10 m awayRef 1986558611206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2013553D53654 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.