A354 crash in Dorset on 26 August 2025 at 11:46 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Tourneo were involved in a crash on the A354 in Dorset at 11:46 on Tuesday 26 August 2025. The 65-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2025
- Tuesday, 11:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Tourneo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.63682, longitude -2.46322, in the DT3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Radipole, Dorset, DT3 5FQ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Weymouth and Portland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025552500982
- 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
- 354
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2013.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A354 in Dorset, 4 April 2013
9 m awayRef 2013553D13057
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A354 in Dorset, 1 March 2014
16 m awayRef 2014554D08539
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A354 in Dorset, 16 July 2022
40 m awayRef 2022552200836
Slight
Alfa Romeo 147 crash on the A354 in Dorset, 2 October 2015
43 m awayRef 2015551500681
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A354 in Dorset, 13 December 2013
55 m awayRef 2013553D52265
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A354 in Dorset, 26 April 2011
87 m awayRef 2011551D18417
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Tourneo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025552500982 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.