A motorcyclist killed in a road accident near Shillingstone last Friday (June 11) has been identified.

An inquest at Blandford heard that Neil Dominic Carter, a 26-year-old packer from Dorchester, died at the scene of the accident on the A357 near Shillingstone.

Mr Carter’s Suzuki motorcycle had been involved in a collision with a blue Rover car driven by a 30-year-old woman from the Sturminster Newton area.

The inquest was opened and adjourned to a later date.