A347 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 3 August 1998 at 07:55 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 07:55 on Monday 3 August 1998. The 21-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 1998
- Monday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72369, longitude -1.87783, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998550B03811
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Highway authority
- Bournemouth
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 347
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2002.
Slight
Toyota Previa crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 31 December 2002
At the same spotRef 2002550B07403
Slight
Car crash on the A35 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 7 August 1988
At the same spotRef 1988558821096
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 15 August 2022
7 m awayRef 2022552201078
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A338 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 28 August 2025
7 m awayRef 2025552501171
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A341 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 22 January 2002
10 m awayRef 2002550B00423
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 12 September 2002
10 m awayRef 2002550B05105
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 21, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1998550B03811 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.