A349 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 18 December 1986 at 17:20 involving a van
A van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A349 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 17:20 on Thursday 18 December 1986. The 18-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured. The location was in the former Poole district.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986558624485
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 349
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 350
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 18, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1986558624485 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 1986.