C road crash in Dorset DT1 on 17 December 2015 at 18:07 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 18:07 on Thursday 17 December 2015. A 35-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Insignia was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69622, longitude -2.44191, in the DT1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winterborne & Broadmayne, Dorset, DT2 9PR 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
- 2015551501604
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 November 1983.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 5 November 1983
9 m awayRef 1983558311695
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Dorset, 13 April 2015
29 m awayRef 2015556000045
Serious
Rover 45 crash on a C road in Dorset, 25 March 2011
38 m awayRef 2011551D13300
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Dorset, 14 August 1993
142 m awayRef 19935593W3187
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Dorset, 16 July 2012
209 m awayRef 2012552D29100
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Dorset, 15 July 2011
219 m awayRef 2011551D31873
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2015551501604 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 2015.