A348 crash in Dorset on 19 June 2018 at 09:25 involving a Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle and a Jeep Cherokee were involved in a crash on the A348 in Dorset at 09:25 on Tuesday 19 June 2018. The 17-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Beetle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 2018
- Tuesday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Beetle and Jeep Cherokee
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79885, longitude -1.89382, in the BH22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ferndown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ferndown North, Dorset, BH22 9JF area accident hotspot. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018551800738
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 348
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2025.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A348 in Dorset, 9 May 2025
At the same spotRef 2025552500497
Slight
Nissan Pulsar crash on the A348 in Dorset, 12 September 2023
3 m awayRef 2023552301141
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A348 in Dorset, 28 February 1990
3 m awayRef 19905590C0399
Slight
Car crash on the A348 in Dorset, 25 October 1987
3 m awayRef 1987558732344
Slight
Car crash on the A348 in Dorset, 13 July 1979
3 m awayRef 1979557922659
Slight
Car crash on the A348 in Dorset, 14 March 1984
3 m awayRef 1984558420763
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018551800738 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 2018.