C road crash in Dorset DT2 on 30 December 2025 at 11:04 involving a Yamaha XC motorcycle
A Yamaha XC motorcycle crashed on a C road in Dorset at 11:04 on Tuesday 30 December 2025. The 56-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 11:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha XC
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.70261, longitude -2.37305, in the DT2 postcode district. The location was in the former West Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025552600052
- 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
- 60 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 2023.
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on a C road in Dorset, 23 January 2023
4 m awayRef 2023552300141
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 20 October 2022
4 m awayRef 2022552201347
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Dorset, 22 February 2022
4 m awayRef 2022552200234
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Dorset, 11 April 2021
5 m awayRef 2021552100494
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 27 March 2003
5 m awayRef 2003553W01568
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Dorset, 23 March 2009
5 m awayRef 2009559D01284
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XC
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 115 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XC)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025552600052 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.