C road crash in Dorset SP7 on 9 January 2014 at 14:53 involving an Audi A3
A car and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 14:53 on Thursday 9 January 2014. The 51-year-old female driver of the Audi A3 and the 77-year-old female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2014
- Thursday, 14:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01768, longitude -2.24062, in the SP7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gillingham, Dorset, SP7 9PW area accident hotspot. The location was in the former North Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014554D01177
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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, 136 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 July 2001.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 27 July 2001
136 m awayRef 2001551E03905
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 12 December 1990
142 m awayRef 19905590W1722
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 10 July 1982
156 m awayRef 1982558210932
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 14 March 2007
163 m awayRef 2007557E01248
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 13 April 2009
166 m awayRef 2009559D01438
Slight
Volvo 480 crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 11 June 2003
170 m awayRef 2003553E03016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2014554D01177 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 2014.