C road crash in Dorset BH21 on 10 July 2022 at 13:39 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and a Mitsubishi Colt were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 13:39 on Sunday 10 July 2022. The 71-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Freelander and a 19-year-old female passenger in the Mitsubishi Colt were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2022
- Sunday, 13:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Mitsubishi Colt
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79904, longitude -2.07643, 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
- 2022552200827
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 75 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 March 1980.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 18 March 1980
75 m awayRef 1980558021066
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dorset, 17 July 1992
119 m awayRef 19925592C1003
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 May 1989
135 m awayRef 19895589C0849
Serious
MZ crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 9 May 1991
173 m awayRef 19915591C0647
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 23 June 1998
245 m awayRef 19985598E3086
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Dorset, 14 June 1985
251 m awayRef 1985558521896
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mitsubishi Colt)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2022552200827 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.