B3144 crash in Dorset on 30 January 2024 at 11:10 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on the B3144 in Dorset at 11:10 on Tuesday 30 January 2024. The 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2024
- Tuesday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71129, longitude -2.44154, in the DT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dorchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dorchester West, Dorset, DT1 1RU area accident hotspot. 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
- 2024552400257
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3144
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3144
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2002.
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B3147 in Dorset, 20 September 2002
3 m awayRef 2002552W05272
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3144 in Dorset, 10 October 2018
9 m awayRef 2018551801272
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3147 in Dorset, 14 December 2005
9 m awayRef 2005555W06226
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the B3144 in Dorset, 10 June 2006
19 m awayRef 2006556W02681
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3144 in Dorset, 13 November 2009
20 m awayRef 2009559D04671
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 2 July 2012
20 m awayRef 2012552D27050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
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
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2024552400257 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.