A347 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 24 December 1986 at 21:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 21:55 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. The 44-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 56-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured. The location was in the former Bournemouth district.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1986
- Wednesday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986558624583
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3063
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1986558624583 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.