Serious A341 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 15 July 1979 at 22:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 22:45 on Sunday 15 July 1979. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jul 1979
- Sunday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77743, longitude -1.94591, in the BH21 postcode district. The location was in the former Poole district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979557922690
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 341
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2018.
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 3 January 2018
6 m awayRef 2018551800019
Slight
Car crash on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 25 November 1988
10 m awayRef 1988558832084
Slight
Horse rider crash on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 19 November 2008
14 m awayRef 2008558C05172
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 25 March 2012
20 m awayRef 2012552C12177
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 28 November 1990
22 m awayRef 19905590C2056
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 12 June 2008
28 m awayRef 2008558C02438
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1979557922690 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole road accident statistics for 1979.