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C road crash in Dorset DT4 on 6 September 2003 at 11:30 involving a Sym Jet motorcycle

A Sym Jet motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 11:30 on Saturday 6 September 2003. The 58-year-old male rider of the Sym Jet motorcycle and a 54-year-old female passenger on the Sym Jet motorcycle were 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
Slight
Date
6 Sep 2003
Saturday, 11:30
Vehicles
2
Sym Jet and bicycle
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.62459, longitude -2.47781, in the DT4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Radipole, Dorset, DT4 0EW area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Weymouth and Portland district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dorset

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2003553W04746
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
Urban
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2009.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Sym Jet

    Motorcycle 50cc and under

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    58 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    8 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 58, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym Jet)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 54, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sym Jet)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 2003553W04746 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 2003.