A354 crash in Dorset on 7 July 2025 at 11:55 involving a Yamaha MT motorcycle
A Yamaha MT motorcycle, a BMW X5 and a Hyundai i30 were involved in a crash on the A354 in Dorset at 11:55 on Monday 7 July 2025. The 23-year-old male rider of the Yamaha MT motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Monday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Yamaha MT and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.69443, longitude -2.45149, in the DT2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Winterborne & Broadmayne, Dorset, DT2 9PR 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
- 2025552501068
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 354
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2013.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A354 in Dorset, 7 May 2013
18 m awayRef 2013553D17604
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A354 in Dorset, 31 July 1984
45 m awayRef 1984558411103
Serious
Car crash on the A354 in Dorset, 11 December 1982
45 m awayRef 1982558211836
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A354 in Dorset, 31 July 2025
67 m awayRef 2025552500912
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A354 in Dorset, 27 May 2024
72 m awayRef 2024552400620
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A354 in Dorset, 10 July 2024
83 m awayRef 2024552400815
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha MT
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 3: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Emergency vehicle (blue light) on response
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha MT)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2025552501068 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 2025.