Serious unclassified road crash in Dorset DT11 on 29 December 2013 at 12:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford C-Max were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dorset at 12:00 on Sunday 29 December 2013. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 2013
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85613, longitude -2.21407, in the DT11 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
- 2013553D54311
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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%
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The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2014.
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Slight
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford C-Max)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford C-Max)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford C-Max)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford C-Max)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2013553D54311 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.