C road crash in Dorset DT10 on 17 September 2019 at 20:26 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on a C road in Dorset at 20:26 on Tuesday 17 September 2019. The 59-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2019
- Tuesday, 20:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87495, longitude -2.36721, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019551901142
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 107 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 19 June 1983
107 m awayRef 1983558310827
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Dorset, 9 October 1990
225 m awayRef 19905590W1399
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 16 May 1984
274 m awayRef 1984558410644
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Dorset, 26 February 2000
328 m awayRef 2000550W00951
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 18 December 1985
391 m awayRef 1985558511857
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on a C road in Dorset, 1 November 2018
424 m awayRef 2018551801339
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 2019551901142 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 2019.