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Serious unclassified road crash in Dorset BH20 on 25 July 2023 at 17:48 involving a Honda Jazz

A Honda Jazz hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dorset at 17:48 on Tuesday 25 July 2023. A 76-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
Serious
Date
25 Jul 2023
Tuesday, 17:48
Vehicles
1
Honda Jazz
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.68698, longitude -2.11048, in the BH20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wareham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4QP area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Purbeck district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dorset

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2023552300902
Council area
Dorset
Police force
Dorset
Police attended the scene
No
Highway authority
Dorset (excluding Christchurch)

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
B
Second road number
3075

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
100%
Estimated chance it was slight
0%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South West
    Position at junction
    Leaving main road
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    90 years
    Engine capacity
    1,318 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    30 to 40% most deprived

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside
    Home area deprivation
    10% 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 2023552300902 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 2023.