Serious A352 crash in Dorset on 30 August 2016 at 13:57 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A352 in Dorset at 13:57 on Tuesday 30 August 2016. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 13:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 4
- 1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.6673, longitude -2.27771, in the DT2 postcode district. 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
- 2016551601980
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 352
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 9 July 2014.
Fatal
Skoda Citigo crash on the A352 in Dorset, 9 July 2014
4 m awayRef 2014554D27742
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A352 in Dorset, 2 May 1999
7 m awayRef 19995599E2017
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A352 in Dorset, 16 July 2006
7 m awayRef 2006556E03327
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A352 in Dorset, 20 April 2010
7 m awayRef 2010550D15723
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A352 in Dorset, 6 October 2024
8 m awayRef 2024552401406
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A352 in Dorset, 10 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025552500703
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2016551601980 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.