Unclassified road crash in Dorset DT7 on 11 August 2013 at 16:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Dorset at 16:05 on Sunday 11 August 2013. A 27-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 2013
- Sunday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72918, longitude -2.93724, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013553D33058
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 May 1981.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 31 May 1981
10 m awayRef 1981558110703
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 6 March 1982
10 m awayRef 1982558210261
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 5 March 2009
22 m awayRef 2009559D00898
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 7 July 1981
32 m awayRef 1981558110893
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 29 May 2004
40 m awayRef 2004554W02526
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 14 January 2000
41 m awayRef 2000550W00216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2013553D33058 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 2013.