• Police appeal for witnesses after Dorchester A35 road traffic collision

  By This is Dorset at 08:58 on 29/11/12

  

  Police officers in Dorchester are appealing for witnesses after a driver involved in a road traffic collision failed to stop and give any details. A dark blue Mercedes E300 traveling from the Monkeys Jump roundabout towards the football stadium roundabout on the A35. The car was struck from behind by an unknown vehicle at around 6.20pm on Saturday November 24. The driver of the Mercedes, a 44-year-old woman from Poole and her 10-year-ol...

• Dorset Police get a 3D Scanner

  By forum_news at 13:47 on 31/12/11

  

  The Department for Transport has given police forces in the South West over £340,000 to spend on 3D laser scanners. The technology creates a 3D image of crash scenes and is used to cut the amount of time that roads are closed after an accident by allowing police to examine the scene 'virtually'. With no motorways and relatively few dual carriageways, an accident can close a major road in Dorset for many hours. Roads notorious...

• Abnormal load to disrupt traffic around Blandford Forum on Sunday 28th August

  By forum_news at 15:53 on 24/08/11

  

  Police have issued a warning about an abnormal load on the roads around Blandford over the bank holiday weekend. The load, bound for the Great Dorset Steam fair will consist of three steam road locomotives travelling extremely slowly (5mph) on Sunday 28th August from 7am. Disruption and delays are expected along the A354 from Salisbury towards Tarrant Hinton. Motorists are being asked to exercise patience, and preferably avoid...

• Watch out - the police will be about in Blandford tomorrow

  By alfiebass at 14:40 on 07/09/10

  

  Blandford will be the focus of a special one-day operation as part of the Dorset Road Safe partnership's 'no excuse' casualty reduction campaign tomorrow (Wednesday 8 September). 'No excuse' is a year-long partnership project aimed at reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured on Dorset's roads through a combination of extra enforcement, education and publicity. Dorchester, Bournemouth and Poole have already been the...

• Blandford's Mortain Bridge Closed

  By meester7 at 15:20 on 29/06/10

  

  The Mortain Bridge (the blue suspension bridge) by the Ham car park (next to Morrisons) will be closed today and tomorrow (29th and 30th June) for resurfacing.  Does this inconvenience any of you?  Is anyone still trying to cross the bridge?

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