A338 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 21 December 1986 at 11:40 involving a car

A car crashed on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 11:40 on Sunday 21 December 1986. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured. The location was in the former Bournemouth district.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1986; Sunday, 11:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986558624533
Council area: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Police force: Dorset

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 338
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 70 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: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
18 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 18, 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 1986558624533 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.