A35 crash in Dorset on 29 November 2000 at 18:20 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A35 in Dorset at 18:20 on Wednesday 29 November 2000. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2000
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Speedfight and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69972, longitude -2.44742, in the DT1 postcode district. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000550W06180
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 35
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3147
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1980.
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Car crash on the A354 in Dorset, 29 March 1980
At the same spotRef 1980558010549
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Car crash on the A35 in Dorset, 25 August 2001
At the same spotRef 2001551W04409
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Car crash on the A35 in Dorset, 3 December 1999
At the same spotRef 1999559W05851
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Ford Sierra crash on the A35 in Dorset, 29 November 2000
At the same spotRef 2000550W06130
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Fiat 500 crash on the A354 in Dorset, 4 April 2024
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Scania crash on the A354 in Dorset, 15 March 2022
7 m awayRef 2022552200321
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 2000550W06180 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 2000.