B3078 crash in Dorset on 30 December 2016 at 12:50 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B3078 in Dorset at 12:50 on Friday 30 December 2016. A 41-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2016
- Friday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81131, longitude -1.98552, in the BH21 postcode district. 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
- 2016551602781
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3078
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3078 in Dorset, 6 October 2015
5 m awayRef 2015551500701
Slight
Car crash on the B3078 in Dorset, 21 April 1988
10 m awayRef 1988558830661
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B3078 in Dorset, 22 July 2005
16 m awayRef 2005555E03373
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3078 in Dorset, 16 November 1998
26 m awayRef 19985598E5903
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B3078 in Dorset, 28 April 2015
66 m awayRef 2015556000212
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B3078 in Dorset, 12 June 1996
79 m awayRef 19965596K2391
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016551602781 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.