Twelve people have been killed on Dorset's roads this year. 

Carmel Buckley, 76, of Southbourne, suffered fatal injuries as she tried to get off a bus in Bournemouth. She received a chest injury as a result of the fall which happened on January 31 on a single decker Yellow Buses bus in Southbourne Grove. Mrs Buckley died five days after the incident from pneumonia and emphysema due to a chest injury.

Five-year-old Lily-Mae Jeffries died following a collision on Weymouth Way on March 11.

She was crossing the road with her grandmother Anita Jeffries when they were involved in a collision with two motorbikes.

Lily died from her injuries the following day. Mrs Jeffries, 72, suffered serious injuries in the incident and her two older grandchildren aged six and 10 were treated at Dorset County Hospital.

David Bartholomew, 54, from Bere Regis, died on March 20 when the Honda CBF 1,000cc motorcycle he was riding was involved in a collision with a car on the A31 at the Canford Bottom roundabout. The father-of two suffered multiple injuries and died in hospital.

He was a works manager at a metal fabrication company and belonged to Dorset Motorcycle Club. More than 100 people staged a mass 50-mile ride-out last month in his memory.

Nick Barry, 44, from Boscombe, died on April 1 as he rode his Kawasaki 1,000cc motorcycle along Ashley Road in Parkstone.

His bike was in collision with a car. Mr Barry’s family and friends paid tribute to him by riding their motorbikes in convoy down Ashley Road with signs saying: “Can you see us now? R.I.P Nick Barry.”

Pensioner John Bradbury, 75, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, died when his red Citroen Berlingo was in collision with a 26-tonne bin lorry on the A35 on April 6.

His wife suffered minor injuries in the accident which happened near the Monkey’s Jump near Dorchester and Winterbourne Abbas.

Cyclist Michael Walker, 17, from Poole, died after being involved in a collision with a car on the southbound carriageway of Holes Bay Road on May 4. The teenager was a keen sailor and a member of Poole Yacht Club.

Ben Andrews, 19, from Blandford, was killed in a horrific head-on crash on the A354, just north of Blandford’s Pimperne roundabout on May 7. Three others were seriously injured in the collision.

Cyclist Lewis Monks, 19, from Weymouth, died on June 8 after he was involved in a collision with a First Bus on Newstead Road in Weymouth.

Soldier Matthew Cottrell, 24, died in the early hours of June 23 as he walked back to base following his stag do.

The Sapper in the Royal Engineers, who was training at Bovington, was in collision with a coach on a notorious stretch of the A35 between Poole and Bere Regis. His funeral was held in the church in which he was to marry fiancée Debbie Smith.

Cyclist Garry Newsam, 51, from Sherborne, was killed following a collision with a car on the A30 at Babylon Hill near Sherborne, on June 28.

74-year-old passenger Elizabeth Rees died in the days following a three vehicle road accident on the A352 in Wareham on June 28.

The incident was initially treated as a minor-injury collision, but Mrs Rees was admitted to hospital on her return to Cornwall and later died.

77-year-old grandmother Margaret Howell suffered fatal injuries after being involved in a collision with a lorry in Wimborne Road, Winton, on Thursday July 12. She died the following day.

A number of people have also lost their lives on roads in crashes in the New Forest.

Internationally renowned surgeon and father-of-three Nick Boeree, pictured right, died when his 1,300cc Yamaha FJR motorcycle was in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A337 Brockenhurst to Lymington road on March 21. He lived in Bramshaw.

Pensioner Richard Steele-Perkins, 77, of Haslemere, Surrey, was killed when his dark red Daihatsu Sirion car was in collision with three other vehicles by the Ringwood flyover on February 15.

And Joyce Frigot, 61, from Christchurch, died at the scene of a horror head-on crash on the A35 near Holmsley on June 17.