The most dangerous roads in Dorset revealed

Created by two road safety experts, CrashMap highlights the location of every collision on the roads in a given period.

The detailed tool shows you not only the severity of the crash – slight, serious or fatal – but also when it took place, the number of vehicles involved and the number of casualties reported.

The data, which covers the full five-year period between 2015 and 2019, is taken directly from official government statistics, based on records submitted by the police.

A broad look at the map, which can be accessed through this link, shows that a number of these collisions occurred on the county’s major routes, namely the A35, A37, A350 and A354.

Poole and Bournemouth saw the most crashes between 2015 and 2019, with 1,620 collisions in the Bournemouth area and Poole area saw 1,155 collisions.

There were 427 reported collisions in Weymouth area and 79 crashes in the Portland area while there have been 231 collisions around the Dorchester area.

The Bridport and West Bay area saw 196 crashes, the Lyme Regis and Chideock area saw 59 collisions while 30 crashes were reported in and around Beaminster.

Across Dorset, Blandford Forum area saw 167 crashes, 228 collisions were reported across Gillingham and Shaftesbury, while 76 crashes were reported in the Sherborne area.

The map can also be filtered to show just fatal crashes, which reveals at least 90 fatal crashes have occurred between 2015 and 2019.

The Weymouth and Portland area recorded nine fatal collisions, 12 fatal crashes occurred in West Dorset and seven fatal collisions were reported in the Dorchester area.

The Poole and Bournemouth area reported the most fatal collisions in Dorset, with 21 fatal crashes in the five-year time period.

Dorset’s major roads recorded fatal crashes, with eight recorded on A35 and two fatal crashes were reported on both the A37 and A352.

To find out how many accidents have occurred near you, type your location into the CrashMap website.