Serious C road crash in Dorset BH16 on 13 September 1998 at 18:55 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dorset at 18:55 on Sunday 13 September 1998. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 1998
- Sunday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7516, longitude -2.08089, in the BH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lytchett Matravers. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19985598E4636
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 July 1998.
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 19985598E4636 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 1998.