A351 crash in Dorset on 29 December 1986 at 16:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A351 in Dorset at 16:20 on Monday 29 December 1986. The 46-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1986
- Monday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986558611937
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 351
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 46, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1986558611937 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.