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Serious A350 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 19 March 1999 at 08:40 involving a Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle

A Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle crashed on the A350 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 08:40 on Friday 19 March 1999. The 26-year-old female rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Mar 1999
Friday, 08:40
Vehicles
1
Suzuki GS 500
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72504, longitude -1.99232, in the BH15 postcode district. The location was in the former Poole district.

Map of where the crash happened in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1999550P01289
Council area
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Police force
Dorset
Highway authority
Poole

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
350
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 September 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki GS 500

    Motorcycle over 125cc

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    26 years
    Engine capacity
    487 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Female, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GS 500)

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 1999550P01289 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 1999.