C road crash in Dorset BH20 on 19 July 2017 at 23:16 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Dorset at 23:16 on Wednesday 19 July 2017. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2017
- Wednesday, 23:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68194, longitude -2.24034, in the BH20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wool. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017551701196
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 May 2020.
Slight
Audi Q2 crash on a C road in Dorset, 12 May 2020
18 m awayRef 2020552000591
Serious
Lorry crash on a C road in Dorset, 23 November 1981
24 m awayRef 1981558111654
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on a C road in Dorset, 24 September 2004
54 m awayRef 2004554E04734
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 4 December 1982
129 m awayRef 1982558211796
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Dorset, 24 May 1996
173 m awayRef 19965596D2097
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Dorset, 19 March 1995
177 m awayRef 19955595D1064
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2017551701196 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 2017.