Serious unclassified road crash in Dorset BH19 on 16 September 2014 at 17:20 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dorset at 17:20 on Tuesday 16 September 2014. An 83-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 2014
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.60974, longitude -1.95969, in the BH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swanage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanage, Dorset, BH19 1HP area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014554D38560
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2023.
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 83, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 2014554D38560 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.