B3070 crash in Dorset on 19 November 2016 at 09:17 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the B3070 in Dorset at 09:17 on Saturday 19 November 2016. The 69-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 09:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66904, longitude -2.16216, in the BH20 postcode district. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016551700237
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3070
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 1998.
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 24 June 1998
4 m awayRef 19985598E3098
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 29 July 2008
4 m awayRef 2008558D03174
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 12 October 2009
4 m awayRef 2009559D04177
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 11 August 2020
5 m awayRef 2020552000759
Serious
Renault Kadjar crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 27 May 2025
5 m awayRef 2025552500610
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3070 in Dorset, 10 May 2021
7 m awayRef 2021552100439
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016551700237 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.