Serious unclassified road crash in Dorset DT10 on 29 November 2017 at 17:14 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dorset at 17:14 on Wednesday 29 November 2017. A 78-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Nov 2017
- Wednesday, 17:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96719, longitude -2.31969, in the DT10 postcode district. The location was in the former North Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017551701876
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 48 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 5 July 2000
48 m awayRef 2000620018046
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 January 1999
167 m awayRef 19995599W0893
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on a C road in Dorset, 5 November 2025
168 m awayRef 2025552501330
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on a C road in Dorset, 2 February 2018
171 m awayRef 2018551800168
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 11 January 1989
176 m awayRef 1989558910055
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 1 November 1985
176 m awayRef 1985558511608
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 78, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
- 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 2017551701876 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.