C road crash in Dorset DT2 on 7 November 2017 at 14:25 involving a Hyundai Amica
A Hyundai Amica and a Skoda Yeti were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 14:25 on Tuesday 7 November 2017. The 32-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Amica was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 2017
- Tuesday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Amica and Skoda Yeti
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77983, longitude -2.60622, in the DT2 postcode district. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017551701760
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 94 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1979.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 31 October 1979
94 m awayRef 1979557912507
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 1 May 1983
222 m awayRef 1983558310549
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 11 June 1980
282 m awayRef 1980558011057
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A356 in Dorset, 2 January 2010
437 m awayRef 20105500D0010
Slight
Car crash on the A356 in Dorset, 28 March 2016
438 m awayRef 2016551601436
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A356 in Dorset, 26 May 2013
459 m awayRef 2013553D20375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Amica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Yeti
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Amica)
- 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 2017551701760 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.