Unclassified road crash in Dorset DT4 on 21 September 2010 at 14:50 involving a Mercedes C Class
A bicycle and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dorset at 14:50 on Tuesday 21 September 2010. The 42-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2010
- Tuesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.61165, longitude -2.45492, in the DT4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weymouth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westham, Dorset, DT4 0UB 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
- 2010550D41455
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
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 slight injury crash on 6 June 2003.
Slight
Volkswagen crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 6 June 2003
At the same spotRef 2003553W02917
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A354 in Dorset, 21 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986558611206
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A354 in Dorset, 25 August 1992
At the same spotRef 19925592W1144
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 6 March 2003
At the same spotRef 2003553W01205
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 12 September 1999
At the same spotRef 1999559W04316
Slight
Car crash on the A354 in Dorset, 24 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986558611242
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 42, 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 2010550D41455 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.