C road crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole BH1 on 15 September 1979 at 16:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 16:30 on Saturday 15 September 1979. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 1979
- Saturday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72634, longitude -1.84028, in the BH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bournemouth. The location was in the former Bournemouth district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979557923747
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 35
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3500 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 21 December 1989
At the same spotRef 19895589E1807
Serious
Bus crash on the A35 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 10 February 1989
At the same spotRef 19895589E0178
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 1 April 1984
At the same spotRef 1984558420962
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 3 December 1985
At the same spotRef 1985558524169
Slight
Bus crash on the A3500 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 23 September 1989
At the same spotRef 19895589E1306
Slight
Bus crash on the A35 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 22 October 1981
At the same spotRef 1981558122979
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1979557923747 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.