Serious B3081 crash in Dorset on 15 November 2014 at 19:24 involving a Peugeot 306
Four vehicles, including a Peugeot 306 and a car, were involved in a crash on the B3081 in Dorset at 19:24 on Saturday 15 November 2014. The 34-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 306 and a 44-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 306 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 19:24
- Vehicles
- 4
- Peugeot 306 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01645, longitude -2.22721, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014554D47671
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3081
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 10 July 1993.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 10 July 1993
14 m awayRef 19935593W2645
Slight
Car crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 24 September 1989
14 m awayRef 19895589W1399
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 15 February 2016
14 m awayRef 2016551601373
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 2 August 2013
22 m awayRef 2013553D31480
Slight
Car crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 29 March 2010
40 m awayRef 20105500D1183
Slight
Car crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 3 August 1999
50 m awayRef 1999559E03581
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 4: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 2014554D47671 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.