Unclassified road crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 21 December 1986 at 00:03 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter crashed on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 00:03 on Sunday 21 December 1986. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured. The location was in the former Poole district.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1986
- Sunday, 00:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986558624527
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 1986558624527 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.