C road crash in Dorset BH21 on 3 April 2009 at 10:46 involving a Fiat Ducato van
A Fiat Ducato van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 10:46 on Friday 3 April 2009. The 64-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2009
- Friday, 10:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Ducato and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84213, longitude -1.85879, in the BH21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Three Legged Cross. The location was in the former East Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009559D01310
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 October 2016.
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Dorset, 8 October 2016
9 m awayRef 2016551602473
Serious
Renault Trucks crash on a C road in Dorset, 15 January 2015
14 m awayRef 2015555998996
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 30 August 1993
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 24 July 1987
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Slight
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78 m awayRef 19965596K4219
Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Ducato
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 64, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2009559D01310 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 2009.