Road safety improvements urged after motorbike death

A coroner has urged a council to improve the safety of a road following the death of a 22-year-old motorcyclist.

Jet Thomas-Day, from Weymouth, Dorset, died after losing control of his motorbike on the B3390, near Crossways, on 23 August 2025.

Assistant coroner Richard Middleton urged Dorset Council to review the speed limit and lack of signage on that section of road.

Dorset Council said it had started a study, including a speed survey, to assess whether the limit was still appropriate and whether advisory signs were needed for the bends.

Thomas-Day was riding northbound towards Crossways when his bike went onto its side on a left-hand bend, an inquest heard.

He came off the bike and was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

Nobody saw what caused him to lose control, but the weather was fine and dry, and there was no evidence he was speeding.

In his prevention of future deaths report, Middleton said it was a national speed limit stretch of road, with no sign suggesting a safe speed for the series of bends.

Travelling south, the limit rises from 40mph to 60mph just before the bends, and there had been three other single-vehicle crashes on the stretch in recent years.

An experienced motorcyclist who arrived at the scene described the B3390 as "a windy country road that requires caution".

"There are multiple rises and falls and short sections of road have restricted views," he said. "Visibility can be as little as 50 to 100 yards.

"I do not believe the road is a 60mph road due to its layout."

In its response, the council said the study was due to be completed by the end of the year.

If a lower limit was justified, it would begin the formal process to change it, including a public consultation, it said.

The council also offered its condolences to Thomas-Day's family.