Serious A351 crash in Dorset on 15 April 2008 at 15:30 involving a Sukida SK 50 motorcycle
A Sukida SK 50 motorcycle and a Citroen C15 van were involved in a crash on the A351 in Dorset at 15:30 on Tuesday 15 April 2008. The 16-year-old male rider of the Sukida SK 50 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Apr 2008
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Sukida SK 50 and Citroen C15
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69387, longitude -2.11309, in the BH20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wareham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4QP area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008558D01557
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 351
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 September 2014.
Serious
Suzuki GSR 600 crash on the A351 in Dorset, 21 September 2014
10 m awayRef 2014554D39315
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A351 in Dorset, 16 August 2011
20 m awayRef 2011551D37358
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A351 in Dorset, 4 May 2009
22 m awayRef 2009559D01750
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 14 June 1986
30 m awayRef 1986558610793
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A351 in Dorset, 4 April 2020
31 m awayRef 2020552000367
Serious
Car crash on the A551 in Dorset, 23 July 1986
36 m awayRef 1986558611024
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Sukida SK 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Citroen C15
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Sukida SK 50)
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 2008558D01557 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 2008.