A347 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 1 January 2008 at 00:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 00:25 on Tuesday 1 January 2008. The 26-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
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
- 1 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77318, longitude -1.88722, in the BH10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kinson, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH10 7BH area accident hotspot. 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
- 2008558B00049
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Bournemouth
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 347
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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 lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 August 2016.
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 30 August 2016
8 m awayRef 2016551601979
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 22 July 2009
10 m awayRef 2009559C02954
Slight
Car crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 16 January 2024
13 m awayRef 2024552400331
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A347 in Dorset, 2 May 2008
14 m awayRef 2008558C01860
Slight
Car crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 26 April 1999
14 m awayRef 1999550B01924
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A347 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 8 October 2014
14 m awayRef 2014554C41993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2008558B00049 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 2008.