C road crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole BH10 on 28 December 1979 at 22:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 22:40 on Friday 28 December 1979. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1979
- Friday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75222, longitude -1.90044, in the BH10 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
- 1979557925401
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 13 September 1993
10 m awayRef 19935593E3642
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 27 March 1984
14 m awayRef 1984558420912
Slight
Kawasaki ZX crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 22 May 2025
26 m awayRef 2025552500564
Slight
Ford Capri crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 7 December 1996
30 m awayRef 19965596B5424
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 9 May 2020
31 m awayRef 2020552000617
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 2 July 2002
32 m awayRef 2002550B03536
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1979557925401 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.