A3049 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 26 September 2008 at 07:25 involving a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 07:25 on Friday 26 September 2008. The 19-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2008
- Friday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSF 600 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75316, longitude -1.93334, in the BH12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kinson, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH11 8LW area accident hotspot. 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008558C04200
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Poole
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3049
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2007.
Slight
Cpi SM 50 crash on the A348 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 19 April 2007
10 m awayRef 2007557B01815
Serious
Lorry crash on the A348 in Dorset, 7 February 1988
14 m awayRef 1988558820199
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 95 crash on the A3049 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 14 April 1997
14 m awayRef 19975597P1857
Serious
Talbot Samba crash on the A348 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 13 August 1995
20 m awayRef 19955595P3071
Slight
Car crash on the A3480 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 13 December 1989
20 m awayRef 19895589C2175
Slight
Car crash on the A348 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 28 November 2001
20 m awayRef 2001550P06309
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,588 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 2008558C04200 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.