Unclassified road crash in Dorset BH31 on 3 March 2016 at 19:38 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dorset at 19:38 on Thursday 3 March 2016. The 21-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 19:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87484, longitude -1.87343, in the BH31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Verwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Verwood, Dorset, BH31 6EG area accident hotspot. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016551600541
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016551600541 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 2016.