B3155 crash in Dorset on 30 August 2017 at 12:15 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo and a Ford C-Max were involved in a crash on the B3155 in Dorset at 12:15 on Wednesday 30 August 2017. A 34-year-old female passenger in the Ford C-Max was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Aug 2017
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and Ford C-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.62417, longitude -2.44512, in the DT4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Melcombe Regis, Dorset, DT4 7LJ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Weymouth and Portland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017551701394
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3155
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1990.
Slight
Ford crash on the A353 in Dorset, 2 September 1990
2 m awayRef 19905590W1206
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A353 in Dorset, 1 September 1993
2 m awayRef 19935593W3545
Slight
Car crash on the A353 in Dorset, 28 July 1980
2 m awayRef 1980558011480
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A353 in Dorset, 9 June 2002
2 m awayRef 2002552W03100
Slight
Car crash on the A3530 in Dorset, 18 August 1989
2 m awayRef 19895589W1203
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A353 in Dorset, 10 July 1994
2 m awayRef 19945594W2507
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford C-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford C-Max)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2017551701394 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.