C road crash in Dorset BH19 on 19 January 2024 at 14:42 involving a Ford B-Max
A Ford B-Max and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 14:42 on Friday 19 January 2024. The 33-year-old male driver of the car was 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
- 19 Jan 2024
- Friday, 14:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford B-Max and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.62708, longitude -1.96985, in the BH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swanage. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024552400088
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Dorset, 29 March 1993
1 m awayRef 19935593W1090
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Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Dorset, 11 April 1991
1 m awayRef 19915591W0480
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Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Dorset, 4 July 1991
1 m awayRef 19915591W0817
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Renault 18 crash on a C road in Dorset, 1 July 1990
1 m awayRef 19905590W0859
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Van crash on a C road in Dorset, 25 December 1985
36 m awayRef 1985558511883
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 3 September 1987
148 m awayRef 1987558711810
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford B-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024552400088 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 2024.