Serious C road crash in Dorset BH16 on 2 July 2023 at 22:13 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Dorset at 22:13 on Sunday 2 July 2023. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jul 2023
- Sunday, 22:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75019, longitude -2.08216, in the BH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lytchett Matravers. The location was in the former Purbeck district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023552301063
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 84 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 1986.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 19 April 1986
84 m awayRef 1986558621308
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 21 February 1997
137 m awayRef 19975597P0906
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Dorset, 13 September 1998
181 m awayRef 19985598E4636
Fatal
Kawasaki VN800 crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 July 1998
190 m awayRef 19985598E3563
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 19 June 1992
212 m awayRef 19925592C0867
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 5 December 1980
258 m awayRef 1980558024485
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2023552301063 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 2023.