C road crash in Dorset DT2 on 6 October 2017 at 16:41 involving a Peugeot Bipper van
A Peugeot Bipper van and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 16:41 on Friday 6 October 2017. The 44-year-old female driver of the Peugeot Bipper van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2017
- Friday, 16:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Bipper and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.709, longitude -2.4762, in the DT2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winterborne & Broadmayne, Dorset, DT2 9DL area accident hotspot. 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
- 2017551701978
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Dorset, 4 February 1999
2 m awayRef 19995599W0620
Serious
Lexus CT 200 crash on a C road in Dorset, 22 June 2017
8 m awayRef 2017551700986
Serious
Honda H100S crash on a C road in Dorset, 16 March 1996
9 m awayRef 19965596D1046
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025552501102
Serious
Vauxhall Agila crash on a C road in Dorset, 9 November 2025
11 m awayRef 2025552501350
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Dorset, 21 March 2025
13 m awayRef 2025552500315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Bipper
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Bipper)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2017551701978 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.