A353 crash in Dorset on 14 June 2014 at 16:30 involving a Toyota RAV4
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jun 2014
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.65076, longitude -2.45785, in the DT3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Littlemoor & Preston, Dorset, DT3 5PJ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014554D23888
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 353
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
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, 48 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2022.
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Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 28 January 1980
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Peugeot 306 crash on the A353 in Dorset, 21 March 2013
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Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Dorset, 25 May 1992
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2014554D23888 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.