C road crash in Dorset SP8 on 22 December 2018 at 23:33 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dorset at 23:33 on Saturday 22 December 2018. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 23:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04713, longitude -2.26103, in the SP8 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018551801589
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1996.
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 March 1996
6 m awayRef 19965596D1107
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Dorset, 25 July 2024
31 m awayRef 2024552400858
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Dorset, 9 August 2017
60 m awayRef 2017551701296
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 6 February 1985
67 m awayRef 1985558510150
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Dorset, 9 December 2018
69 m awayRef 2018551801529
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dorset, 18 August 2002
98 m awayRef 2002552E04578
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2018551801589 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.