A347 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 23 December 1986 at 02:05 involving a car

A car crashed on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 02:05 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured. The location was in the former Bournemouth district.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 02:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986558624554
Council area: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Police force: Dorset

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 347
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: 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: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 20, 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 1986558624554 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.