Weymouth crash leaves teenage cyclist seriously injured

A teenage cyclist is being treated for serious injuries following a road traffic collision in Weymouth this morning.

Emergency services were called to Lanehouse Rocks Road at around 8.22am after a collision involving a car and a bicycle, near the Esso petrol station.

Police have confirmed that the teenager was taken to hospital with injuries believed to be serious.

Lanehouse Rocks Road was closed from the entrance to the petrol station forecourt through to Cockles Lane while paramedics and police officers dealt with the incident. The road reopened at around 9.50am.

A spokesperson for Dorset Police said:

“We were called at 8.22am to a report of a collision involving a car and a bicycle in Lanehouse Rocks Road in Weymouth. Officers attended alongside the ambulance service.”

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 08:18hrs on Monday 20 January to a road traffic collision in Weymouth. We sent two double-crewed land ambulances, an air ambulance, and an operations officer to the scene. We conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Dorset County Hospital.”

Enquiries into the circumstances of the collision are ongoing.