Unclassified road crash in Dorset SP8 on 9 November 2009 at 05:40 involving a Renault Espace
A Renault Espace and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dorset at 05:40 on Monday 9 November 2009. The 35-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2009
- Monday, 05:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Espace and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03523, longitude -2.27323, in the SP8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gillingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gillingham, Dorset, SP8 4AA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former North Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009559D04592
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3081
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 February 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 22 February 2000
At the same spotRef 2000550E00873
Serious
Car crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 5 December 2007
10 m awayRef 2007557E05789
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 19 August 2005
10 m awayRef 2005555E03938
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 18 October 1980
10 m awayRef 1980558012105
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 3 January 1995
14 m awayRef 19955595D0036
Slight
Car crash on the B3081 in Dorset, 25 November 2009
14 m awayRef 2009559D04926
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Espace
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,188 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 35, 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 2009559D04592 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.