Fatal collision near Verwood - witness appeal

Officers from Dorset police were first called following reports of a collision involving a pedestrian and a Peugeot 208, at around 5.45am on Saturday, 25 August, on the B3081 Verwood Road.

The pedestrian, Thomas Lenton, 23, from Verwood, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the blue Peugeot, a 29-year-old woman from Eastleigh, was uninjured.

The fatal collision near Verwood happened on the Hampshire/Dorset border, near to the Somerley House Waste Recycling Centre.

Hampshire’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit (SCIU) is now leading enquiries into the exact circumstances of the collision.

Officers are particularly keen to speak to the taxi driver who drove Mr Lenton and his two friends from Bournemouth to Verwood in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Sgt Rik Grant, from the Joint Roads Policing SCIU, said, “We know that Mr Lenton and his two friends got into a taxi close to the Genting Casino, in Bournemouth at around 4.30am and were taken to The Quomp, in Ringwood, which would have taken around ten minutes.