Serious unclassified road crash in Dorset DT7 on 16 December 2012 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dorset at 17:00 on Sunday 16 December 2012. The 55-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2012
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72999, longitude -2.93697, in the DT7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lyme Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lyme & Charmouth, Dorset, DT7 3AA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012552D52857
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 January 1990.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 3 January 1990
36 m awayRef 19905590W0014
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 29 November 2016
42 m awayRef 2016551602603
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 14 June 2000
45 m awayRef 2000550W02904
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 20 May 1979
50 m awayRef 1979557911012
Serious
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 16 June 1986
71 m awayRef 1986558610799
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 27 February 2006
91 m awayRef 2006556W01012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 55, 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 2012552D52857 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 2012.