Serious C road crash in Dorset BH24 on 26 August 2014 at 07:20 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on a C road in Dorset at 07:20 on Tuesday 26 August 2014. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Aug 2014
- Tuesday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82479, longitude -1.81057, in the BH24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashley Heath. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014554D35204
- 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
- 40 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 1990.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 February 1990
14 m awayRef 19905590C0344
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A338 in Dorset, 6 January 2009
36 m awayRef 2009559D00053
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A338 in Dorset, 27 December 2021
40 m awayRef 2021552101409
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the A338 in Dorset, 14 March 2007
42 m awayRef 2007557E01249
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A338 in Dorset, 8 March 1993
45 m awayRef 19935593C0816
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A338 in Dorset, 4 January 1993
45 m awayRef 19935593C0038
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 2014554D35204 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.