Serious B3066 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 7 January 1998 at 23:39 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B3066 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 23:39 on Wednesday 7 January 1998. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jan 1998
- Wednesday, 23:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.71641, longitude -1.88706, in the BH2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bournemouth. The location was in the former Bournemouth district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998550B00108
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Highway authority
- Bournemouth
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3066
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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 unlit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3066 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 11 March 2003
10 m awayRef 2003550B01275
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 28 December 1998
20 m awayRef 1998550B06686
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 1 June 1984
30 m awayRef 1984558421705
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 15 June 1993
30 m awayRef 19935593E2253
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 8 May 1981
30 m awayRef 1981558121195
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 20 October 1983
30 m awayRef 1983558323289
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1998550B00108 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 1998.