Serious A3380 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 21 December 1989 at 21:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A3380 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 21:00 on Thursday 21 December 1989. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 1989
- Thursday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75131, longitude -1.82063, in the BH8 postcode district. The location was in the former Bournemouth district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19895589E1808
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3380
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1994.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 14 May 1994
10 m awayRef 19945594E1728
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 10 May 1993
14 m awayRef 19935593E1706
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 18 October 2017
43 m awayRef 2017551701660
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 23 February 1989
45 m awayRef 19895589E0227
Slight
Car crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 10 October 1996
50 m awayRef 19965596B4393
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 12 July 2021
53 m awayRef 2021552101307
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 19895589E1808 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 1989.