A30 crash in Dorset on 26 February 2020 at 09:03 involving a Volkswagen Touran
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2020
- Wednesday, 09:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Touran and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00708, longitude -2.26794, in the SP8 postcode district. The location was in the former North Dorset district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020552000283
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2024.
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Peugeot 207 crash on the A30 in Dorset, 13 March 2016
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BMW 3 Series crash on the A30 in Dorset, 25 September 2025
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A30 in Dorset, 25 August 1996
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2020552000283 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 2020.