Serious A352 crash in Dorset on 10 June 2025 at 19:12 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat, a Honda Civic and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A352 in Dorset at 19:12 on Tuesday 10 June 2025. The 26-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was seriously injured and the 30-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic and the 35-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Tuesday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Passat and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.66743, longitude -2.27762, in the DT2 postcode district. 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
- 2025552500703
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 352
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- C
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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2024.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A352 in Dorset, 6 October 2024
1 m awayRef 2024552401406
Fatal
Skoda Citigo crash on the A352 in Dorset, 9 July 2014
7 m awayRef 2014554D27742
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A352 in Dorset, 30 August 2016
8 m awayRef 2016551601980
Slight
Minibus crash on the A352 in Dorset, 30 July 1979
8 m awayRef 1979557911663
Slight
Car crash on the A352 in Dorset, 18 November 1981
8 m awayRef 1981558111640
Serious
Car crash on the A352 in Dorset, 16 August 1979
8 m awayRef 1979557911854
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 883 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 3: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 3 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2025552500703 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 2025.