C road crash in Dorset DT2 on 11 January 2022 at 07:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A car and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 07:30 on Tuesday 11 January 2022. The 26-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 2022
- Tuesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84962, longitude -2.44326, in the DT2 postcode district. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022552200338
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1990.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Dorset, 6 August 1990
24 m awayRef 19905590W1058
Slight
Saab 9-5 crash on a C road in Dorset, 24 February 2003
87 m awayRef 2003553W01033
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Dorset, 5 August 1983
174 m awayRef 1983558311158
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 14 June 1985
174 m awayRef 1985558510766
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 26 June 2011
186 m awayRef 2011551D28394
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45 crash on a C road in Dorset, 5 October 2001
199 m awayRef 2001551W05210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2022552200338 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 2022.