A352 crash in Dorset on 27 December 1986 at 12:50 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on the A352 in Dorset at 12:50 on Saturday 27 December 1986. The 20-year-old male rider and an 18-year-old female passenger were slightly injured. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1986
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986558611924
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 352
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 1986558611924 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 1986.