B3081 crash in Dorset on 23 December 2018 at 19:22 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on the B3081 in Dorset at 19:22 on Sunday 23 December 2018. A 23-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 19:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92187, longitude -1.94597, in the BH21 postcode district. 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
- 2018551801590
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3081
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2003.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 25 July 2003
5 m awayRef 2003553E03948
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 15 July 2003
5 m awayRef 2003553E03702
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 16 May 1995
7 m awayRef 19955595K1819
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 25 March 1992
7 m awayRef 19925592C0419
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 3 November 1995
7 m awayRef 19955595K4378
Slight
Van crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 9 September 1989
7 m awayRef 19895589C1532
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,348 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2018551801590 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.