C road crash in Dorset DT2 on 2 May 2010 at 09:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in Dorset at 09:20 on Sunday 2 May 2010. The 44-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 2010
- Sunday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72726, longitude -2.3315, in the DT2 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
- 2010550D17527
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2006.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 24 June 2006
At the same spotRef 2006556W02891
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Dorset, 10 July 1991
22 m awayRef 19915591W0844
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 24 August 1984
22 m awayRef 1984558411255
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 27 May 1985
22 m awayRef 1985558510674
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 15 April 1981
50 m awayRef 1981558110481
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 September 2006
57 m awayRef 2006556W04470
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 44, on vehicle 1 (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 2010550D17527 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 2010.